Hidden inside laagers sit alegars and laagers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alegars and laagers tie for the highest Scrabble score from laagers at 8 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in laagers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and laagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alegars and laagers, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling laagers turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aglare, alegar, argals and 7 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in laagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, large, laser, and rages. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including large, rages and agars.
Rearranging the letters in laagers produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area and ears. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and legs.
Unscrambling laagers turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and ear. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in laagers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in laagers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
laagers 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for laagers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
laagers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing laagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alegars and laagers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from laagers 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 laagers produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.