Hidden inside tangible sit bleating and tangible, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bleating and tangible tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangible at 11 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tangible: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangible 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 bleating and tangible, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tangible produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beating. For points, the strongest plays are bealing, beating, belting, and tabling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tangible turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating. For points, the strongest plays are baling, bangle, bating, and giblet — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien and angel. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including bagel, began and begin.
Rearranging the letters in tangible produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bait. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including bang, bing and blag.
Unscrambling tangible turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bag, beg and big.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangible. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangible plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tangible 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.
tangible 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for tangible. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tangible is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangible unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bleating and tangible, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangible 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 tangible produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.