Hidden inside argon sit argon, groan, orang and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argon, groan, orang and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from argon at 6 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in argon: three come from rearranging its letters, and argon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with organ. For points, the strongest plays are argon, groan, orang, and organ — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in argon produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rang. For points, the strongest plays are agon, agro, gnar, gran, and rang — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling argon turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, nag, nor, rag, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ago, gan, gar, goa, gor, nag, nog, org, and rag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in argon and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
argon 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 argon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
argon is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argon, groan, orang, and organ, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argon 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 argon produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.