Hidden inside agonise sit agonies and agonise, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agonies and agonise tie for the highest Scrabble score from agonise at 8 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in agonise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and agonise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agonies and agonise, 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 agonise turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easing. For points, the strongest plays are agones, easing, genoas, and soigne — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agonise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains and noise. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agios, agone, agons, gains, geans, genoa, gonia, segni, segno, sengi, signa, and singe — 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 agonise produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, egos, gain, goes, gone, nags, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, agio, agon, egis, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gean, gens, gien, gies, gins, goas, goes, gone, nags, negs, nogs, sage, sago, sang, sego, sign, sing, snag, snog, and song — 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 agonise turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ego, gas, nag, one, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, gae, gan, gas, gen, gie, gin, gis, goa, gos, nag, neg, nog, sag, seg, and sig — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agonise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each 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 agonise 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.
agonise 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 agonise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
agonise is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agonise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agonies and agonise, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agonise 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 agonise produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.