Hidden inside headgear sit gearhead and headgear, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gearhead and headgear tie for the highest Scrabble score from headgear at 13 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in headgear: one comes from rearranging its letters, and headgear itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gearhead and headgear, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling headgear turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed. For points, the strongest play is hedger — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headgear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, ahead, grade, and heard. For points, the strongest play is hedge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in headgear produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, area, argh, dare, dear, deer, and drag. For points, the strongest plays are agha, ahed, argh, ghee, hade, haed, hard, head, heed, and herd — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling headgear turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, age, aha, are, ear, era, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, had, and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headgear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in headgear and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
headgear is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in headgear carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for headgear. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
headgear is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing headgear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gearhead and headgear, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from headgear earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in headgear produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.