Hidden inside cargoes sit cargoes, corsage, and socager, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cargoes, corsage, and socager tie for the highest Scrabble score from cargoes at 10 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cargoes: two come from rearranging its letters, and cargoes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cargoes, corsage, and socager, 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 cargoes turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graces. For points, the strongest plays are cagers, cargos, graces, and socage — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cargoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cares, cores, grace, races, rages, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cages, cargo, crags, grace, and scrag — each 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 cargoes produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage, care, cars, case, core, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cogs, crag, and scag — 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 cargoes turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, car, ear, ego, and era. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cargoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, or, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in cargoes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cargoes 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 2-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 cargoes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cargoes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cargoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cargoes, corsage, and socager, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cargoes 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 cargoes produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.