Hidden inside decagon sit congaed and decagon, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
congaed and decagon tie for the highest Scrabble score from decagon at 11 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in decagon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decagon 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 congaed and decagon, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decagon turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acnode, canoed, and deacon, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decagon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dance and ocean. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decagon produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, cage and code. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including cage, code and aced.
Unscrambling decagon turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and and. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, cog, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decagon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and do. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in decagon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decagon 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.
decagon 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 one sense for decagon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
decagon is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decagon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are congaed and decagon, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decagon 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 decagon produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.