Hidden inside galleries sit allergies and galleries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allergies and galleries tie for the highest Scrabble score from galleries at 10 points. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in galleries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and galleries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: allergies and galleries, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in galleries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allegers, galilees, gaselier, and legalise, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in galleries produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rallies. For points, the strongest plays are alleger, alleges, galeres, galilee, gallies, gellies, gillers, glaires, grilles, and regales — 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 galleries turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easier, grease, grills, relies, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are agrees, allege, argils, argles, eagers, eagles, eagres, galere, giller, glaire, glairs, glares, grails, grease, grille, grills, grilse, lagers, larges, legals, legers, lieges, ligase, ligers, ragees, regale, regies, sagier, and silage — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in galleries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aisle, erase, girls, grill, large, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agile, aglee, agree, argil, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, gales, galls, gears, gills, girls, glair, glare, glees, glial, glias, grail, grees, grill, lager, large, legal, leger, leges, liege, liger, ragee, rages, ragis, regal, reges, regie, sager, sarge, serge, siege, and sigla — 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 galleries produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ears, ease, else, eras, and gals. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, egal, eger, egis, ergs, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gars, gear, gees, gels, gies, gill, girl, glee, glia, gree, lags, legs, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, 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 galleries turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, all, are, ear, era, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gee, gel, gie, gis, lag, leg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in galleries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in galleries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in galleries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
galleries 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
galleries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing galleries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allergies and galleries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from galleries 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 galleries produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.