Hidden inside antitragus sit antitragus and saturating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 444 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antitragus and saturating tie for the highest Scrabble score from antitragus at 11 points. The top 10 of 444 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in antitragus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antitragus 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 antitragus and saturating, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antitragus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starting and trusting. For points, the strongest plays are granitas, guaranis, starting, and trusting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antitragus produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against, guitars, ratings, staring, and tasting. For points, the strongest plays are against, antisag, gastrin, granita, gratins, guarani, guitars, iguanas, ratings, ratting, rusting, rutting, sangria, sarangi, staring, stating, tarting, tasting, and tauting — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antitragus turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, giants, grants, guitar, rating, string, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are agitas, agrias, atting, gainst, giants, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, grunts, guitar, iguana, rasing, rating, sangar, satang, sating, strang, string, strung, taigas, tangas, targas, taring, tasing, tragus, truing, ungirt, and unrigs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antitragus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aunts, gains, giant, grant, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are again, agars, agist, agita, agria, angas, angst, argus, gains, gaits, garni, gaunt, gaurs, giant, girns, girts, gnars, gnats, grain, grana, grans, grant, grins, grist, grits, grunt, guans, guars, gutta, nagas, ragas, ragis, rangs, rings, ruing, rungs, saiga, sanga, signa, staig, stang, sting, stung, sugar, suing, taiga, tanga, tangs, targa, tings, tragi, trigs, trugs, tungs, unrig, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antitragus produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, anus, arts, aunt, gain, and guns. For points, the strongest plays are agar, agas, agin, anga, gain, gait, gars, gast, gats, gaun, gaur, gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, gnar, gnat, gnus, gran, grat, grin, grit, guan, guar, guns, gust, guts, naga, nags, nugs, raga, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, ruga, rugs, rung, saga, sang, sign, sing, snag, snug, stag, sung, tags, tang, ting, trig, trug, tugs, and tung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antitragus turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, gas, gun, gut, and its. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ags, gan, gar, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, gnu, gun, gut, nag, nug, rag, rig, rug, sag, sig, tag, and tug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antitragus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
antitragus is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
antitragus is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antitragus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antitragus and saturating, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antitragus 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 antitragus produce 444 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.