Hidden inside anthologies sit anthologies, anthologise, and theologians, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anthologies, anthologise, and theologians tie for the highest Scrabble score from anthologies at 15 points. The top 10 of 1254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eleven-letter words hiding in anthologies: two come from rearranging its letters, and anthologies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anthologies, anthologise, and theologians, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in anthologies produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are halogetons and theologian, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling anthologies turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are athelings, halogeton, hooligans, hosteling, and loathings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals, lightens, shooting, soothing, and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are atheling, gahnites, goliaths, halogens, healings, heatings, histogen, hooligan, lathings, leashing, lightens, loathing, shealing, shoaling, shooling, shooting, soothing, and theologs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in anthologies produces 151 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with english, healing, heating, holiest, hostage, hostile, and hosting. For points, the strongest plays are alights, english, gahnite, galoshe, gasohol, goatish, goliath, goloshe, halogen, haloing, halting, hasting, healing, heating, hoagies, hoglets, hognose, hogties, hongies, hooting, hostage, hosting, lashing, lathing, lengths, lighten, longish, nighest, shingle, shoeing, shooing, sleight, stengah, theolog, and tholing — 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 anthologies turns up 227 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are alight, ashing, eights, galosh, geisha, golosh, haeing, haling, hating, hinges, hoagie, hoeing, hogans, hoglet, hogtie, holing, hosing, laighs, length, lights, neighs, nights, oohing, shlong, sleigh, slight, thangs, thegns, things, and thongs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 315 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, alone, along, altho, and angel. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, eight, ghast, ghats, ghost, gnash, goeth, goths, hangs, hinge, hogan, hongi, hongs, laigh, light, sangh, shogi, sight, neigh, nighs, night, ohing, thang, thegn, thing, and thong — 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 anthologies produces 314 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, ants, east, eats, egos, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are gash, ghat, ghis, gosh, goth, hags, hang, hogs, hong, nigh, shag, shog, and sigh — 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 anthologies turns up 146 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ash, ate, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, hag, and hog — 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 40 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anthologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, go, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in anthologies plus one additional letter.
anthologies 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for anthologies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
anthologies is one of three eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anthologies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anthologies, anthologise, and theologians, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anthologies 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 anthologies produce 1254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eleven-letter words, 2 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 46 eight-letter words, 151 seven-letter words, 227 six-letter words, 315 five-letter words, 314 four-letter words, 146 three-letter words and 40 two-letter words.