Hidden inside azygos sit azygos and gyozas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
azygos and gyozas tie for the highest Scrabble score from azygos at 19 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in azygos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and azygos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are azygos and gyozas, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in azygos. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gyoza, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in azygos produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soya and yoga. For points, the strongest play is zags — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling azygos turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gas, gay, say, and soy. For points, the strongest play is zag — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in azygos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, go, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 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 azygos and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
azygos 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in azygos carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for azygos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
azygos is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing azygos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are azygos and gyozas, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from azygos 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 azygos produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.