Hidden inside staggered sit raggedest and staggered, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 362 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
raggedest and staggered tie for the highest Scrabble score from staggered at 12 points. The top 10 of 362 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in staggered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and staggered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are raggedest and staggered, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staggered. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retagged and saggered, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staggered produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest. For points, the strongest plays are daggers, gadgets, and stagged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staggered turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, desert, easter, erased, grades, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are dagger, degage, gadget, ragged, sagged, and tagged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staggered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, dares, dates, dears, deers, drags, and eased. For points, the strongest plays are egged and gaged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staggered produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, arts, dare, date, dear, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, drag, dreg, edge, egad, eggs, gads, gaed, gage, gags, geds, geed, grad, ragg, and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staggered turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dag, egg, gad, gag, and ged — each worth 5 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 staggered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in staggered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in staggered 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.
staggered 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.
staggered is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staggered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are raggedest and staggered, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staggered 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 staggered produce 362 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.