Hidden inside signature sit gauntries and signature, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 743 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gauntries and signature tie for the highest Scrabble score from signature at 10 points. The top 10 of 743 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in signature: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signature itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signature. For points, the strongest plays are gauntries and signature — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest and urinates. For points, the strongest plays are angriest, angstier, astringe, ganister, gantries, granites, ingrates, rangiest, sauteing, tasering, and unitages — 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 signature produces 69 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, guitars, nastier, natures, ratings, resting, and seating. For points, the strongest plays are aigrets, argents, augites, earings, easting, eatings, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garnets, gastrin, gaunter, genista, granite, gratine, gratins, guineas, guitars, gunites, gunters, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, ratings, reagins, regains, reginas, resting, reusing, rusting, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, stagier, staring, stinger, strange, tagines, tangier, tearing, teasing, triages, trueing, and unitage — 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 signature turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, argues, easing, eating, genius, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aigret, angers, argent, argues, augers, augite, earing, easing, eating, engirt, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garnet, gaster, gaters, genius, giants, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, grunts, guinea, guitar, gunite, gunter, gurnet, ingate, ingest, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, regius, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, rueing, rugate, sagier, sanger, sating, sauger, sering, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, strung, tagine, targes, taring, tasing, teguas, tigers, tinges, tragus, triage, truing, ungirt, unrigs, and urgent — 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 199 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, argue, aunts, earns, gains, and gates. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agist, agues, anger, angst, argue, argus, auger, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, gaunt, gaurs, geans, gears, gents, genua, genus, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, grues, grunt, guans, guars, guest, guise, negus, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, rugae, ruing, rungs, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, stung, sugar, suing, surge, tangs, targe, tegua, tegus, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, trigs, trugs, tungs, unrig, urges, usage, and using — 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 signature produces 198 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, anus, arts, aunt, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, ague, areg, nags, negs, nugs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, ruga, rugs, rung, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, snug, stag, sung, tags, tang, tegs, tegu, ting, trig, trug, tugs, tung, urge, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gaun, gaur, gean, gear, gens, gent, genu, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gnus, gran, grat, grin, grit, grue, guan, guar, guns, gust, and guts — 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 signature turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, gnu, gun, gut, nag, neg, nug, rag, reg, rig, rug, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, and tug — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in signature plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signature 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.
signature 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 five senses for signature. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
signature is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gauntries and signature, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signature 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 signature produce 743 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 69 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 199 five-letter words, 198 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.