Hidden inside tragedy sit gyrated and tragedy, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gyrated and tragedy tie for the highest Scrabble score from tragedy at 12 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tragedy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tragedy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tragedy. For points, the strongest plays are gyrated and tragedy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tragedy turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is grayed, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tragedy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gayer, grade, great, ready, and trade. For points, the strongest play is gyred — 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 tragedy produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, date, dear, drag, gate, and gray. For points, the strongest play is edgy — 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 tragedy turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, aye, day, and dry. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, dye, gay, gey, and yag — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tragedy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in tragedy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tragedy 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.
tragedy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tragedy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tragedy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tragedy is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tragedy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gyrated and tragedy, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tragedy 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 tragedy produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.