Hidden inside sergeant sit estrange, grantees, greatens and 3 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 361 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estrange, grantees, greatens and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sergeant at 9 points. The top 10 of 361 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 eight-letter words hiding in sergeant: five come from rearranging its letters, and sergeant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sergeant. For points, the strongest plays are estrange, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, and sergeant — 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 sergeant produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest, and strange. For points, the strongest plays are argents, enrages, ergates, garnets, gerents, grantee, greaten, negater, negates, reagent, regents, restage, and strange — 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 sergeant turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees, angers, easter, enters, grants, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, agents, agrees, angers, argent, eagers, eagres, egesta, egrets, enrage, ergate, garnet, gaster, gaters, genera, genets, genres, gentes, gerent, grants, grates, grease, greats, greens, greets, negate, ragees, ranges, regent, retags, sanger, senega, stager, strang, targes, and tenges — 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 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sergeant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, earns, eaten, enter, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agers, agree, anger, angst, eager, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gater, gates, geans, gears, geest, genes, genet, genre, gents, geste, getas, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, grate, great, green, grees, greet, ragee, rages, range, rangs, reges, regna, retag, sager, sarge, serge, stage, stang, tangs, targe, tenge, and terga — 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 sergeant produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, eger, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, nags, negs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sang, snag, stag, tags, tang, and tegs — 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 sergeant turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gee, gen, get, nag, neg, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, and teg — 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 sergeant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. 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 sergeant and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sergeant 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 three senses for sergeant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sergeant is one of six eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sergeant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estrange, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, and sergeant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sergeant 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 sergeant produce 361 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.