tergal needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tergal is the highest-scoring word from tergal, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tergal — and it is tergal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tergal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, great, large, and later. For points, the strongest plays are aglet, argle, gater, glare, grate, great, lager, large, regal, retag, 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 tergal produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, late, rage, rate, real, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are ager, areg, egal, gale, gate, gear, gelt, geta, grat, and rage — 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 tergal turns up 33 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, erg, gae, gal, gar, gat, gel, get, lag, leg, rag, reg, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tergal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 tergal 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.
tergal 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.
tergal is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tergal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tergal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tergal 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 tergal produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 18 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.