analogous needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 186 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
analogous is the highest-scoring word from analogous, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 186 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in analogous — and it is analogous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in analogous produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are analogs, lagoons, lagunas, and lanugos, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling analogous turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agloos, agonal, analog and 10 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in analogous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, goals, loans, and lungs. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including along, goals and lungs.
Rearranging the letters in analogous produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, anus and gals. For points, 39 words tie at 5 points, including gals, goal and guns.
Unscrambling analogous turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gal and gas. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including ago, gal and gas.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in analogous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in analogous 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.
analogous 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 4-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 analogous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
analogous is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing analogous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is analogous, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from analogous 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 analogous produce 186 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.