stragglers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 366 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stragglers is the highest-scoring word from stragglers, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 366 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in stragglers — and it is stragglers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stragglers turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are straggler and straggles, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stragglers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gagsters, garglers, staggers, and straggle, 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 stragglers produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests and largest. For points, the strongest plays are aggress, gagster, gargets, gargler, gargles, laggers, raggles, 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 stragglers turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, arrest, larger, lasers, rarest, and stages. For points, the strongest plays are aggers, eggars, gagers, garget, gargle, lagger, raggle, 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 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stragglers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, gases, gates, glass, grass, and great. 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 stragglers produces 100 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, gleg, 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 stragglers turns up 61 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stragglers. 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.
stragglers 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 one sense for stragglers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
stragglers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stragglers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stragglers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stragglers 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 stragglers produce 366 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.