Hidden inside yagers sit greasy, gyrase, and yagers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greasy, gyrase, and yagers tie for the highest Scrabble score from yagers at 10 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in yagers: two come from rearranging its letters, and yagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greasy. For points, the strongest plays are greasy, gyrase, and yagers — 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 yagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gayer, rages, and years. For points, the strongest plays are gayer, grays, greys, gyres, yager, and yages — 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 yagers produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, easy, eras, gray, grey, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gays, gray, grey, gyre, sagy, yage, and yags — 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 yagers turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, aye, ear, era, gas, and gay. For points, the strongest plays are 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as 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.
Swap a single tile in yagers 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.
yagers 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 yagers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
yagers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greasy, gyrase, and yagers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yagers 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 yagers produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.