Hidden inside ganglions sit ganglions and singalong, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ganglions and singalong tie for the highest Scrabble score from ganglions at 11 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ganglions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ganglions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ganglions and singalong, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ganglions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anglings, ganglion, longings, and slanging, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ganglions produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loaning. For points, the strongest plays are angling, gaoling, gingals, goaling, gosling, loggias, longing, and noggins — 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 ganglions turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing and signal. For points, the strongest plays are agings, galing, gingal, goings, loggia, noggin, and ogling — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ganglions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, along, gains, gangs, goals, going, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are aging, gangs, gigas, going, gongs, and noggs — 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 ganglions produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, gags, gain, gals, gang, gigs, and goal. For points, the strongest plays are agog, gags, gang, giga, gigs, gong, iggs, and nogg — 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 ganglions turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gag, gal, gas, gig, log, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gag, gig, and igg — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ganglions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ganglions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ganglions 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.
ganglions 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 5-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 ganglions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ganglions is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ganglions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ganglions and singalong, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ganglions 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 ganglions produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.