sandglass needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sandglass is the highest-scoring word from sandglass, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sandglass — and it is sandglass itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sandglass produces exactly one seven-letter word: sandals. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sandglass turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with salads, salsas, and sandal. For points, the strongest play is glands — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sandglass. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glass, lands and salad. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, glads, and gland — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sandglass produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gals, glad and lads. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, gads, and glad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sandglass turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ass. For points, the strongest plays are dag and gad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sandglass. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, and da — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sandglass plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sandglass 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.
sandglass 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for sandglass. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sandglass is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sandglass unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sandglass, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sandglass 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 sandglass produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.