argosies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argosies is the highest-scoring word from argosies, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in argosies — and it is argosies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling argosies produces exactly one seven-letter word: gassier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling argosies turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orgies and raises. For points, the strongest plays are gasser, gorses, ogress, orgies, sagier, sarges, and sargos — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argosies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gases, grass, gross, rages, raise, rises, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agios, agros, gases, gears, gesso, giros, goers, gores, gorse, grass, gross, ogres, rages, ragis, sager, sages, sagos, sarge, sargo, and segos — 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 argosies produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ears, egos, eras, goes, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agio, agro, areg, egis, egos, ergo, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, gies, giro, goas, goer, goes, gore, ogre, orgs, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, sago, sags, sego, segs, and sigs — 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 argosies turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, are, ass, ear, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, erg, gae, gar, gas, gie, gis, goa, gor, gos, org, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argosies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, 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 argosies 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.
argosies 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 1-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 argosies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
argosies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argosies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is argosies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from argosies 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 argosies produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.