Hidden inside amigos sit amigos and imagos, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amigos and imagos tie for the highest Scrabble score from amigos at 9 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in amigos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amigos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amigos and imagos, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amigos. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agism, amigo, gismo and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amigos produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including gams, magi and mags.
Unscrambling amigos turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amigos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and go. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in amigos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amigos and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
amigos 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 one sense for amigos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
amigos is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amigos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amigos and imagos, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amigos 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 amigos produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.