Hidden inside stagger sit gagster, gargets, stagger and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gagster, gargets, stagger and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stagger at 9 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in stagger: three come from rearranging its letters, and stagger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gagster, gargets, stagger, and taggers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stagger turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aggers, eggars, gagers and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stagger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, great and rages. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including agger, eggar and gager.
Rearranging the letters in stagger produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including eggs, gags and gage.
Unscrambling stagger turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in stagger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stagger 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.
stagger 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 five senses for stagger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stagger is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stagger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gagster, gargets, stagger, and taggers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stagger 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 stagger produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.