Hidden inside strategies sit strategies and strategise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 539 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strategies and strategise tie for the highest Scrabble score from strategies at 11 points. The top 10 of 539 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in strategies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strategies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strategies. For points, the strongest plays are strategies and strategise — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling strategies turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greasiest. For points, the strongest plays are aigrettes, greasiest, and grisettes — 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 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strategies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greatest. For points, the strongest plays are aigrette, gestates, greatest, grisette, restages, stagiest, and tergites — 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 strategies produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, easiest, easters, estates, greases, sitters, and streets. For points, the strongest plays are aegises, ageists, aigrets, ergates, gaiters, gassier, gasters, gestate, getters, greases, restage, sagiest, seagirt, stagers, stagier, tagetes, targets, tergite, tigress, and triages — 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 strategies turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, artist, easier, easter, erases, estate, and grease. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agists, agrees, aigret, eagers, eagres, egesta, egests, egises, egress, egrets, ergate, gaiter, gasser, gaster, gaters, geests, gestes, getter, grates, gratis, grease, greats, greets, grists, ragees, regies, retags, sagest, sagier, sarges, serges, sieges, stager, stages, staigs, targes, target, tigers, and triage — 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 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strategies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, eases, erase, gases, gates, grass, and great. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agist, agree, eager, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gaits, gases, gasts, gater, gates, gears, geest, geste, gests, getas, girts, gists, gites, grass, grate, great, grees, greet, grist, grits, ragee, rages, ragis, reges, regie, retag, sager, sages, sarge, serge, siege, stage, stags, staig, targe, terga, tiger, tragi, and trigs — 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 strategies produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, arts, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, areg, eger, egis, ergs, gaes, gait, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gees, gest, geta, gets, gies, girt, gist, gite, gits, grat, gree, grit, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, sags, segs, sigs, stag, tags, tegs, and trig — 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 strategies turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, gee, get, gie, gis, git, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 strategies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. 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.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in strategies plus one additional letter.
strategies 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 two senses for strategies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
strategies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strategies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strategies and strategise, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strategies 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 strategies produce 539 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.