Hidden inside dangerous sit dangerous and noseguard, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 608 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dangerous and noseguard tie for the highest Scrabble score from dangerous at 11 points. The top 10 of 608 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in dangerous: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dangerous itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangerous. For points, the strongest plays are dangerous and noseguard — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling dangerous produces exactly one eight-letter word: guerdons. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dangerous produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, dragons, gardens, grounds, oranges, and surgeon. For points, the strongest plays are aground, augends, dangers, desugar, dogears, dragons, drogues, ganders, gardens, gerunds, gourdes, groaned, grounds, groused, guerdon, nudgers, sugared, and undergo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dangerous turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, angers, argued, argues, around, danger, and dragon. For points, the strongest plays are argued, augend, danger, dogear, dongas, dosage, dragon, drogue, durags, gander, garden, gerund, gonads, gourde, gourds, grades, gradus, grands, ground, guards, nudger, nudges, ranged, rogued, rouged, runged, seadog, sundog, surged, and unaged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dangerous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, anger, argue, dares, dears, drags, and drugs. For points, the strongest plays are agued, dangs, degas, doges, donga, dongs, drags, dregs, drugs, dungs, durag, egads, gauds, goads, gonad, gored, gourd, grade, grads, grand, guard, gudes, nudge, raged, and urged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dangerous produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, anus, dare, dear, does, and dogs. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, doge, dogs, dong, drag, dreg, drug, dugs, dung, egad, gads, gaed, gaud, geds, goad, gods, grad, and gude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dangerous turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, ago, and, are, dog, and due. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dog, dug, gad, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dangerous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, go, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, go, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in dangerous plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dangerous 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.
dangerous 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for dangerous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dangerous is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dangerous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dangerous and noseguard, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dangerous 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 dangerous produce 608 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 32 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.