langoustes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 740 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
langoustes is the highest-scoring word from langoustes, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 740 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in langoustes — and it is langoustes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling langoustes produces exactly one nine-letter word: langouste. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langoustes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angulose, glasnost, languets, outgases, and tangelos, 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 langoustes produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with longest, lounges, tangoes, and tongues. For points, the strongest plays are angelus, engluts, gaseous, gelants, gelatos, glossae, glutens, gunless, gunsels, gustoes, gutless, lagunes, langues, languet, lanugos, legatos, longest, lounges, nougats, onstage, outages, outsang, slogans, tangelo, tangles, tangoes, tongues, and tugless — 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 langoustes turns up 116 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angels, angles, anuses, guests, lesson, and lounge. For points, the strongest plays are agents, aglets, agones, angels, angles, anglos, angsts, englut, gaults, gelant, gelato, genoas, gleans, gloats, glossa, glosts, glouts, gluons, gluten, glutes, gnoses, gossan, guanos, guests, gunsel, gusset, gustos, lagune, langue, lanugo, legato, logans, longes, lounge, lunges, nougat, outage, outgas, sagest, segnos, slangs, slogan, stages, stangs, tangle, tangos, teguas, tegula, togues, tongas, tongue, and usages — 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 217 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langoustes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sales, salts, seals, seats, slots, songs, and souls. For points, the strongest plays are sages, sagos, segno, segos, slags, slang, slogs, slugs, slung, snags, snogs, snugs, songs, stage, stags, stang, stung, tango, tangs, tegua, tegus, agent, aglet, aglus, agone, agons, agues, along, angel, angle, anglo, angst, gales, gaols, gases, gasts, gates, gault, gaunt, gauss, geans, gelts, genoa, gents, genua, genus, gesso, gests, getas, glans, glass, glean, glens, gloat, gloss, glost, glout, glues, gluon, glute, gluts, gnats, goals, goats, goest, gouts, guano, guans, guess, guest, gules, gusto, gusts, logan, loges, longe, longs, luges, lunge, lungs, negus, ogles, togae, togas, togue, tonga, tongs, tungs, ungot, and usage — 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 langoustes produces 220 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, ants, anus, aunt, auto, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are ages, aglu, agon, ague, lags, lang, legs, loge, logs, long, luge, lugs, lung, nags, negs, nogs, nugs, ogle, sage, sago, sags, sang, sego, segs, slag, slog, slug, snag, snog, snug, song, stag, egal, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gale, gals, gane, gaol, gast, gate, gats, gaun, gean, gels, gelt, gens, gent, genu, gest, geta, gets, glen, glue, glut, gnat, gnus, goal, goas, goat, goes, gone, gout, guan, guls, guns, gust, guts, sung, tags, tang, tegs, tegu, toga, togs, tong, tugs, and tung — 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 langoustes turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ass, ate, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, gnu, goa, gos, got, gul, gun, gut, lag, leg, log, lug, nag, neg, nog, nug, sag, seg, tag, teg, tog, and tug — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langoustes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, no, on, and so. 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.
langoustes 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 two senses for langoustes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
langoustes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing langoustes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is langoustes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from langoustes 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 langoustes produce 740 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 116 six-letter words, 217 five-letter words, 220 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.