Hidden inside arguments sit argentums and arguments, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 614 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentums and arguments tie for the highest Scrabble score from arguments at 12 points. The top 10 of 614 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in arguments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arguments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arguments. For points, the strongest plays are argentums and arguments — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arguments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argument. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including argument, argentum and augments.
Rearranging the letters in arguments produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets, manures, natures, and strange. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including magnets, augment and engrams.
Unscrambling arguments turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers and argues. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, engram and gamers.
There are 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arguments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, amuse and anger. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including games, germs and gamer.
Rearranging the letters in arguments produces 198 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, amen and ants. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including mugs, smug and game.
Unscrambling arguments turns up 107 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arguments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in arguments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arguments 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.
arguments 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.
Dictionaries record seven senses for arguments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
arguments is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arguments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentums and arguments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arguments 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 arguments produce 614 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 198 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.