Hidden inside stranger sit granters, regrants, and stranger, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
granters, regrants, and stranger tie for the highest Scrabble score from stranger at 9 points. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in stranger: two come from rearranging its letters, and stranger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stranger. For points, the strongest plays are granters, regrants, and stranger — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stranger produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strange. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including strange, argents and garners.
Unscrambling stranger turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers and arrest. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including agents, angers and grants.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stranger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and earns. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including agent, anger and gates.
Rearranging the letters in stranger produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and arts. For points, 36 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling stranger turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stranger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in stranger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stranger 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.
stranger 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 two senses for stranger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stranger is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stranger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are granters, regrants, and stranger, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stranger 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 stranger produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.