Hidden inside langue sit lagune and langue, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lagune and langue tie for the highest Scrabble score from langue at 7 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in langue: one comes from rearranging its letters, and langue itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lagune and langue, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel and angle. For points, the strongest plays are angel, angle, genua, glean, and lunge — 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 langue produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, lane, lean, and lung. For points, the strongest plays are aglu, ague, egal, gaen, gale, gane, gaun, gean, genu, glen, glue, guan, lang, luge, and lung — 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 langue turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, gun, leg, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, gnu, gul, gun, lag, leg, lug, nag, neg, and nug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. 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.
Swap a single tile in langue and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
langue 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.
langue is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing langue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lagune and langue, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from langue 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 langue produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.