Hidden inside agonist sit agonist and gitanos, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agonist and gitanos tie for the highest Scrabble score from agonist at 8 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in agonist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and agonist 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 agonist and gitanos, 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 agonist turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are gainst, giants, gitano, ingots, sating, stingo, tangos, tasing, tigons, and tongas — 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 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, goats, saint, stain, sting, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are agios, agist, agons, angst, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, goats, gonia, ingot, signa, staig, stang, sting, tango, tangs, tigon, tings, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 agonist produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, goat, into, nags, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, goas, goat, nags, nogs, sago, sang, sign, sing, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, ting, toga, togs, and tong — 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 agonist turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gas, got, its, nag, and not. For points, the strongest plays are ago, ags, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, nag, nog, sag, sig, tag, and tog — 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 agonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. 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 agonist 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.
agonist 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 four senses for agonist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
agonist is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agonist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agonist and gitanos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agonist 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 agonist produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.