Hidden inside storage sit garotes, orgeats, storage and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
garotes, orgeats, storage and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from storage at 8 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in storage: three come from rearranging its letters, and storage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with storage. For points, the strongest plays are garotes, orgeats, storage, and toerags — 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 storage turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argots, ergots, garote, gaster, gaters, gators, grates, greats, groats, orgeat, retags, stager, targes, and toerag, 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, goats, great, rages, rates, roast, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are agers, agros, argot, ergot, gater, gates, gator, gears, getas, goats, goers, goest, gores, gorse, grate, great, groat, grots, ogres, rages, retag, sager, sarge, sargo, stage, targe, terga, togae, togas, and trogs — 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 storage produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, east, eats, egos, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agro, areg, egos, ergo, ergs, gaes, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gest, geta, gets, goas, goat, goer, goes, gore, grat, grot, ogre, orgs, rage, rags, regs, sage, sago, sego, stag, tags, tegs, toga, togs, and trog — 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 storage turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, get, goa, gor, gos, got, org, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, teg, and tog — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each 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 storage 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.
storage 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for storage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
storage is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing storage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are garotes, orgeats, storage, and toerags, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from storage 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 storage produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.