Hidden inside angles sit angels, angles, and gleans, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angels, angles, and gleans tie for the highest Scrabble score from angles at 7 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in angles: two come from rearranging its letters, and angles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angels and angles. For points, the strongest plays are angels, angles, and gleans — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in angles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle, lanes, and leans. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including angel, angle and gales.
Rearranging the letters in angles produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals and lane. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and legs.
Unscrambling angles turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal and gas. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
26 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in angles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in angles 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.
angles 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.
angles is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing angles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angels, angles, and gleans, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from angles 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 angles produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.