arctangent needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arctangent is the highest-scoring word from arctangent, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in arctangent — and it is arctangent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arctangent produces exactly one eight-letter word: reactant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arctangent produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carnage, cartage, and catagen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arctangent turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with target. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including arcane, canner and canter.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arctangent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and cater. For points, the strongest plays are cager and grace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arctangent produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cage and care. For points, the strongest plays are cage and crag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arctangent turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ant. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arctangent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in arctangent plus one additional letter.
arctangent 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 4-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 arctangent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
arctangent is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arctangent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arctangent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arctangent 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 arctangent produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.