Hidden inside argentum sit argentum and argument, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 253 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentum and argument tie for the highest Scrabble score from argentum at 11 points. The top 10 of 253 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in argentum: one comes from rearranging its letters, and argentum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argument. For points, the strongest plays are argentum and argument — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in argentum produces 5 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 augment, garment, margent, and mutagen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling argentum turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnet, manure and mature. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, engram and german.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argentum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and argue. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gamer, gamut and grume.
Rearranging the letters in argentum produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt and earn. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and gaum.
Unscrambling argentum turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gam.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argentum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in argentum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in argentum and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
argentum 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.
argentum is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argentum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentum and argument, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argentum 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 argentum produce 253 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.