Hidden inside languages sit languages and slanguage, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
languages and slanguage tie for the highest Scrabble score from languages at 11 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in languages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and languages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with languages. For points, the strongest plays are languages and slanguage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling languages produces exactly one eight-letter word: language. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in languages produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasagne and snuggle. For points, the strongest plays are gangles, gangues, snaggle, and snuggle — 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 languages turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angels and angles. For points, the strongest plays are gangle, gangue, gauges, gulags, and gunges — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle, gangs, glues, lanes, leans, and lungs. For points, the strongest plays are gages, gangs, gauge, glugs, gulag, and gunge — 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 languages produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus, eggs, gags, gals, gang, and glue. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gaga, gage, gags, gang, gleg, and glug — 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 languages turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, egg, gag, gal, gas, gun, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 languages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in languages 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.
languages 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 six senses for languages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
languages is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing languages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are languages and slanguage, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from languages 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 languages produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.