Hidden inside surgeries sit regisseur and surgeries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
regisseur and surgeries tie for the highest Scrabble score from surgeries at 10 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in surgeries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and surgeries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surgeries. For points, the strongest plays are regisseur and surgeries — 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 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surgeries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is resurges, 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 surgeries produces 11 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 guesser, gurries, regress, resurge, sergers, and surgers, 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 surgeries turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with series. For points, the strongest plays are egises, egress, guises, gussie, regies, regius, rerigs, segues, serger, serges, sieges, surger, surges, and urgers — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surgeries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, issue, rises, surer, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are egers, grees, grues, guess, guise, reges, regie, rerig, segue, serge, siege, surge, urger, and urges — 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 surgeries produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rigs, rise, rugs, sees, sirs, sues, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are eger, egis, ergs, gees, gies, gree, grue, regs, rigs, rugs, segs, sigs, and urge — 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 surgeries turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, rig, rug, see, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, gie, gis, grr, reg, rig, rug, seg, and sig — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surgeries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in surgeries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in surgeries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
surgeries 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 four senses for surgeries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
surgeries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surgeries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are regisseur and surgeries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from surgeries 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 surgeries produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.