Hidden inside angaries sit anergias, angaries, and arginase, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anergias, angaries, and arginase tie for the highest Scrabble score from angaries at 9 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in angaries: two come from rearranging its letters, and angaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anergias, angaries, and arginase, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in angaries produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including erasing, anergia and earings.
Unscrambling angaries turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, ranges, and singer. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including angers, easing and ranges.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in angaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, anger and areas. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including again, anger and gains.
Rearranging the letters in angaries produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and area. For points, 42 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gain and nags.
Unscrambling angaries turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, 21 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and nag.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in angaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in angaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in angaries and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
angaries 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.
angaries is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing angaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anergias, angaries, and arginase, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from angaries 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 angaries produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.