Hidden inside estragon sit estragon and negators, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 457 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estragon and negators tie for the highest Scrabble score from estragon at 9 points. The top 10 of 457 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in estragon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and estragon 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 estragon and negators, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in estragon produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oranges, senator, storage, strange, and tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are argents, garnets, garotes, negator, onagers, onstage, oranges, orgeats, storage, strange, tangoes, toerags, and tongers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling estragon turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, grants, orange, organs, ranges, and reason. For points, the strongest plays are agents, agones, angers, argent, argons, argots, ergots, garnet, garote, gaster, gaters, gators, genoas, genros, goners, grants, grates, greats, groans, groats, onager, orange, orangs, organs, orgeat, ranges, retags, sanger, sarong, stager, strang, strong, tangos, targes, toerag, tongas, and tonger — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estragon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gates, goats, grant, and great. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agers, agone, agons, agros, anger, angst, argon, argot, ergot, gater, gates, gator, geans, gears, genoa, genro, gents, getas, gnars, gnats, goats, goers, goest, goner, gores, gorse, grans, grant, grate, great, groan, groat, grots, ogres, orang, organ, rages, range, rangs, regna, retag, sager, sarge, sargo, segno, stage, stang, tango, tangs, targe, terga, togae, togas, tonga, tongs, and trogs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in estragon produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, arts, nags, near, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agon, agro, areg, nags, negs, nogs, ogre, orgs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sago, sang, sego, snag, snog, song, stag, egos, engs, ergo, ergs, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnar, gnat, goas, goat, goer, goes, gone, gore, gran, grat, grot, tags, tang, tegs, toga, togs, tong, and trog — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling estragon turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, goa, gor, gos, got, nag, neg, nog, org, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, teg, and tog — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in estragon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, no, on, and or. 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 estragon 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.
estragon 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 two senses for estragon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
estragon is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing estragon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estragon and negators, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from estragon 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 estragon produce 457 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.