Hidden inside argentous sit argentous and outranges, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 691 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentous and outranges tie for the highest Scrabble score from argentous at 10 points. The top 10 of 691 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in argentous: one comes from rearranging its letters, and argentous itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argentous and outranges, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argentous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outrages. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including outrages, estragon and negators.
Rearranging the letters in argentous produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with natures, oranges and outrage. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including oranges, outrage and storage.
Unscrambling argentous turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers and argues. For points, 64 words tie at 7 points, including agents, angers and argues.
There are 190 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argentous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and argue. For points, 91 words tie at 6 points, including agent, anger and argue.
Rearranging the letters in argentous produces 215 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and anus. For points, 81 words tie at 5 points, including ages, nags and rage.
Unscrambling argentous turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 34 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argentous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in argentous plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in argentous and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
argentous 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for argentous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
argentous is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argentous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentous and outranges, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argentous 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 argentous produce 691 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 190 five-letter words, 215 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.