Unscramble GELDERS and you have 132 words, GELDERS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. GELDERS has 3 anagrams here, LEDGERS, REDLEGS and SLEDGER, scoring 9 like GELDERS itself. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. GELDERS as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from GELDERS split into 4 with 7 letters, 13 with 6, 36 with 5, 46 with 4, 26 with 3 and 7 with 2.
10 of 36 5-letter words from GELDERS tie at 7 points; none scores more. EDGES, ELDER and REELS will look familiar.
Of the 46 4-letter words you get when you unscramble GELDERS, 7 score 6 points, the group's best. EDGE, LEGS and SEED are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of GELDERS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with GE · ending in RS · all 7-letter words
What GELDERS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. GELDERS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GELDERS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 132) | 108 | 132 | 104 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SLEDGER, GERLES, DEGS, DERES, GERES, GERLE, GRESE, LERED, SEELD, DEG, ERED, GERE and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SERGED, LEDES, LEDE and EDS, 4 in all.
These 4 words take every letter of GELDERS plus a single extra one.