Hidden inside ranges sit angers, ranges, and sanger, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SANGRE, ANGESR or NASREG and you get the same 6 letters as RANGES: so the words from RANGES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
angers, ranges, and sanger tie for the highest Scrabble score from ranges at 7 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in ranges: two come from rearranging its letters, and ranges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers and ranges. For points, the strongest plays are angers, ranges, and sanger — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ranges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns and rages. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including anger, rages and range.
Rearranging the letters in ranges produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, earn and ears. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including ages, nags and rage.
Unscrambling ranges turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and ear. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and nag.
33 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ranges plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ranges and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ranges 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.
Dictionaries record seventeen senses for ranges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ranges is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ranges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angers, ranges, and sanger, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ranges 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 ranges produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.