Hidden inside bangtail sit ablating and bangtail, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ablating and bangtail tie for the highest Scrabble score from bangtail at 11 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in bangtail: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bangtail itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ablating and bangtail, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bangtail produces 2 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 abating and tabling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bangtail turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baaing, baling, and bating, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bangtail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again and giant. For points, the strongest play is bling — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bangtail produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, bang, gain, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are bang, bing, blag, and glib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bangtail turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, bag, ban, bat, big, bit, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 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 bangtail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bangtail plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bangtail 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.
bangtail 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 one sense for bangtail. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
bangtail is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bangtail unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ablating and bangtail, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bangtail 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 bangtail produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.