Hidden inside sausage sit assuage and sausage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assuage and sausage tie for the highest Scrabble score from sausage at 8 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sausage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sausage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sausage. For points, the strongest plays are assuage and sausage — 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 sausage produces exactly one six-letter word: usages. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sausage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gases and guess. For points, the strongest plays are agues, gases, gauss, guess, sagas, sages, and usage — 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 sausage produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, seas, sues, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are agas, ages, ague, gaes, saga, sage, sags, and segs — 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 sausage turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, gas, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are aga, age, ags, gae, gas, sag, and seg — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sausage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. 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 sausage 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.
sausage 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 two senses for sausage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sausage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sausage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assuage and sausage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sausage 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 sausage produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.