Hidden inside restage sit ergates and restage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ergates and restage tie for the highest Scrabble score from restage at 8 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in restage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and restage 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 ergates and restage, 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 restage turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easter, grease, and greets. For points, the strongest plays are agrees, eagers, eagres, egesta, egrets, ergate, gaster, gaters, grates, grease, greats, greets, ragees, retags, stager, and targes — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, erase, gates, great, greet, rages, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are agers, agree, eager, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gater, gates, gears, geest, geste, getas, grate, great, grees, greet, ragee, rages, reges, retag, sager, sarge, serge, stage, targe, and terga — 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 restage produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, eger, ergs, gaes, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gees, gest, geta, gets, grat, gree, rage, rags, regs, sage, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 restage turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, gee, get, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, and teg — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. 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 restage 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.
restage 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.
restage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ergates and restage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restage 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 restage produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.