Hidden inside staggers sit gagsters and staggers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gagsters and staggers tie for the highest Scrabble score from staggers at 10 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in staggers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and staggers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gagsters and staggers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staggers produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aggress, gagster, gargets, saggers, seggars, stagger, and taggers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staggers turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stages and stares. For points, the strongest plays are aggers, eggars, gagers, garget, sagger, seggar, and tagger — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gases, gates, grass, great, rages, rates, and rests. For points, the strongest plays are agger, eggar, gager, gages, raggs, and teggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staggers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, east, eats, eggs, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gage, gags, ragg, and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staggers turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 staggers 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.
staggers 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 one sense for staggers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
staggers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staggers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gagsters and staggers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staggers 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 staggers produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.