Hidden inside larges sit argles, glares, lagers and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argles, glares, lagers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from larges at 7 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in larges: three come from rearranging its letters, and larges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argles, glares, lagers, and larges, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with large, laser, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agers, argle, gales, gears, glare, lager, large, rages, regal, sager, and sarge — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in larges produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, gals, legs, rage, and rags. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, egal, ergs, gaes, gale, gals, gars, gear, gels, lags, legs, rage, rags, regs, sage, and slag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling larges turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gal, gas, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gel, lag, leg, rag, reg, sag, and seg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 larges and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
larges 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 nine senses for larges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
larges is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argles, glares, lagers, and larges, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from larges 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 larges produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.