Hidden inside rages sit agers, gears, rages and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agers, gears, rages and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rages at 6 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in rages: four come from rearranging its letters, and rages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rages. For points, the strongest plays are agers, gears, rages, 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 rages produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, rage, and rags. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, rage, rags, regs, and sage — 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 rages turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gas, rag, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rages. 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.
54 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rages and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
rages 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for rages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
rages is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agers, gears, rages, sager, and sarge, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rages 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 rages produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.