Hidden inside analogies sit analogies and analogise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 402 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
analogies and analogise tie for the highest Scrabble score from analogies at 10 points. The top 10 of 402 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in analogies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and analogies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are analogies and analogise, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling analogies produces exactly one eight-letter word: gasoline. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in analogies produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasagne and sealing. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including lasagne, sealing and agnails.
Unscrambling analogies turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels and angles. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including angels, angles and easing.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in analogies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aisle and alien. For points, 54 words tie at 6 points, including again, along and angel.
Rearranging the letters in analogies produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also and lane. For points, 55 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and logs.
Unscrambling analogies turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ego. For points, 26 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in analogies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in analogies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in analogies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
analogies 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for analogies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
analogies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing analogies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are analogies and analogise, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from analogies 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 analogies produce 402 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 21 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.