Hidden inside heptagon sit heptagon and pathogen, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heptagon and pathogen tie for the highest Scrabble score from heptagon at 14 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in heptagon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and heptagon 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 heptagon and pathogen, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in heptagon produces 2 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 phaeton and phonate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling heptagon 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 word is hapten, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heptagon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, phone, and tango. For points, the strongest play is phage — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in heptagon produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goat, gone, hang, hate, heat, and hope. For points, the strongest plays are epha, heap, hope, opah, path, phat, pheo, phon, phot, and toph — 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 heptagon turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ape, ate, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hop, pah, peh, pho, pht, and poh — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heptagon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, go, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — 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 heptagon 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.
heptagon 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 one sense for heptagon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
heptagon is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heptagon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are heptagon and pathogen, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from heptagon 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 heptagon produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.