Hidden inside argonauts sit angostura and argonauts, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 349 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angostura and argonauts tie for the highest Scrabble score from argonauts at 10 points. The top 10 of 349 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in argonauts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and argonauts 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 angostura and argonauts, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling argonauts produces exactly one eight-letter word: argonaut. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in argonauts produces 8 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 angoras, nougats, ourangs, outrang, outsang, ragouts, and saguaro, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling argonauts turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grants, organs, strong, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are agoras, angora, argons, argots, gators, grants, groans, groats, grouts, grunts, guanos, nougat, orangs, organa, organs, ourang, outgas, ragout, rugosa, sangar, sarong, satang, strang, strong, strung, tangas, tangos, targas, tongas, and tragus — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argonauts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos, goats, grant, organ, roast, and stung. For points, the strongest plays are agars, agons, agora, agros, angas, angst, argon, argot, argus, gator, gaunt, gaurs, gnars, gnats, goats, gouts, grana, grans, grant, groan, groat, grots, grout, grunt, guano, guans, guars, gusto, nagas, orang, organ, ragas, rangs, rungs, sanga, sargo, stang, stung, sugar, tanga, tango, tangs, targa, togas, tonga, tongs, trogs, trugs, tungs, and ungot — 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 argonauts produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, auto, goat, and guns. For points, the strongest plays are agar, agas, agon, agro, anga, gars, gast, gats, gaun, gaur, gnar, gnat, gnus, goas, goat, gout, gran, grat, grot, guan, guar, guns, gust, guts, naga, nags, nogs, nugs, orgs, raga, rags, rang, ruga, rugs, rung, saga, sago, sang, snag, snog, snug, song, stag, sung, tags, tang, toga, togs, tong, trog, trug, tugs, and tung — 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 argonauts turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, art, gas, got, gun, and gut. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ago, ags, gan, gar, gas, gat, gnu, goa, gor, gos, got, gun, gut, nag, nog, nug, org, rag, rug, sag, tag, tog, and tug — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argonauts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in argonauts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in argonauts 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.
argonauts 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for argonauts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
argonauts is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argonauts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angostura and argonauts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argonauts 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 argonauts produce 349 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.