targets needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
targets is the highest-scoring word from targets, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in targets — and it is targets itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling targets turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with target and treats. For points, the strongest plays are gaster, gaters, grates, greats, retags, stager, targes, and target — 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, great, rages, rates, stage, stare, and start. For points, the strongest plays are agers, gater, gates, gears, getas, grate, great, rages, retag, sager, sarge, stage, targe, and terga — 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 targets produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, ergs, gaes, gars, gast, gate, gats, gear, gest, geta, gets, grat, rage, rags, regs, sage, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 targets turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, gat, get, rag, reg, sag, seg, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targets. 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.
Swap a single tile in targets 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.
targets 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 targets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
targets is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing targets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is targets, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from targets 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 targets produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.