Hidden inside wagers sit swager and wagers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swager and wagers tie for the highest Scrabble score from wagers at 10 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wagers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are swager and wagers, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rages, swear, and wears. For points, the strongest plays are swage, wager, and wages — 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 wagers produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, grew, rage, rags, and wars. For points, the strongest plays are grew, swag, wage, and wags — 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 wagers turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gas, rag, and raw. For points, the strongest play is wag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 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 wagers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
wagers 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 four senses for wagers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
wagers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swager and wagers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wagers 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 wagers produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.