agnates needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agnates is the highest-scoring word from agnates, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in agnates — and it is agnates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling agnates turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents. For points, the strongest plays are agates, agents, agnate, satang, and tangas — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agnates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gates, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are agate, agent, angas, angst, gates, geans, gents, getas, gnats, nagas, sanga, stage, stang, tanga, and tangs — 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 agnates produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, gate, gets, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are agas, ages, anga, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnat, naga, nags, negs, saga, sage, sang, snag, stag, tags, tang, and tegs — 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 agnates turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gas, get, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are aga, age, ags, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, nag, neg, sag, seg, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agnates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and 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 agnates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
agnates 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for agnates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
agnates is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agnates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is agnates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from agnates 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 agnates produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.