embargoes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 382 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embargoes is the highest-scoring word from embargoes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 382 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in embargoes — and it is embargoes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embargoes produces 8 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 bregmas and embargo, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embargoes turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, grease, merges, and orgasm. For points, the strongest plays are begems, bregma, and gambes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embargoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, beams and bears. For points, the strongest plays are begem, gambe, and gambs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embargoes produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arms and bags. For points, the strongest play is gamb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embargoes turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embargoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and be. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
Swap a single tile in embargoes 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.
embargoes 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 three senses for embargoes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
embargoes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embargoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is embargoes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from embargoes 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 embargoes produce 382 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.