Hidden inside antagonist sit antagonist and stagnation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antagonist and stagnation tie for the highest Scrabble score from antagonist at 11 points. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in antagonist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antagonist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antagonist and stagnation, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antagonist turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is agnations, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toasting. For points, the strongest plays are agnation, notating, stagnant, and toasting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antagonist produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against, nations, station, and tasting. For points, the strongest plays are against, agitato, agnosia, agonist, anginas, antings, antisag, atoning, gitanos, goannas, staning, stating, stoning, tasting, and tignons — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antagonist turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, nation, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are agitas, angina, anting, asiago, atting, gainst, giants, gitano, goanna, ingots, nosing, noting, saning, satang, sating, stingo, taigas, tangas, tangos, tasing, tignon, tigons, tongas, toning, and toting — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, gains, giant, goats, saint, stain, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are again, agios, agist, agita, agons, angas, angst, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, goats, gonia, gonna, gotta, ingot, nagas, saiga, sanga, signa, staig, stang, sting, taiga, tanga, tango, tangs, tigon, tings, togas, tonga, and tongs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antagonist produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, goat, into, nags, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are agas, agin, agio, agon, anga, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, goas, goat, naga, nags, nogs, saga, sago, sang, sign, sing, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, ting, toga, togs, and tong — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antagonist turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gas, got, its, nag, and not. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ago, ags, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, nag, nog, sag, sig, tag, and tog — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in antagonist plus one additional letter.
antagonist 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 antagonist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
antagonist is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antagonist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antagonist and stagnation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antagonist 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 antagonist produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.