Unscramble GARES and you have 58 words, GARES itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: AGERS, GEARS, RAGES, SAGER, SARGE and SEGAR. The best shorter words score 5: 13 of them, GEAR, AGES and SAGE included. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GARES split into 7 with 5 letters, 20 with 4, 23 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of GARES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with GA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; AGERS, GEARS, RAGES, SAGER and SARGE (6 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts GARES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 58) | 50 | 58 | 48 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 8 of them: GARES, SEGAR, GARE, GERS, GER, EAS, SAR and EA. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: AREG and AGS.
Each word below uses all the letters of GARES and one more.