forgoes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forgoes is the highest-scoring word from forgoes, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in forgoes — and it is forgoes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling forgoes 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 forego, forges, and gofers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forgoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with frogs, goose, and roofs. For points, the strongest plays are forge, forgo, frogs, gofer, and goofs — 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 forgoes produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, fogs, frog, goes, roof, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are fogs, frog, and goof — 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 forgoes turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, fog, for, and goo. For points, the strongest play is fog — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forgoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, of, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 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 forgoes 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.
forgoes 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 1-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 forgoes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
forgoes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forgoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is forgoes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from forgoes 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 forgoes produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.