languished needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 789 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
languished is the highest-scoring word from languished, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 789 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in languished — and it is languished itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling languished produces exactly one nine-letter word: anguished. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languished. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deashing, headings, and shingled, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in languished produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing, denials, english, handles, heading, healing, and laughed. For points, the strongest plays are dashing, gnashed, heading, laughed, and shading — 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 languished turns up 136 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angles, denial, design, easing, and gained. For points, the strongest plays are gashed, gushed, hading, hanged, hinged, nighed, sighed, and sughed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, angle, aside, deals, and delis. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, ashed, dahls, dashi, deash, deshi, dhals, gnash, hades, haled, halid, hands, hangs, heads, hides, hinds, hinge, laigh, laugh, neigh, nighs, sadhe, sadhu, sangh, saugh, shade, shend, shied, and sidhe — 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 languished produces 229 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, anus, deal, deli, and dial. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, augh, dahl, dahs, dash, dhal, dish, edhs, gash, ghis, gush, hade, haed, hags, hand, hang, head, held, hide, hied, hind, hued, huge, hugs, hung, nigh, shad, shag, shed, sidh, sigh, sugh, and ughs — 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 languished turns up 114 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, aid, and, ash, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dah, duh, edh, ghi, had, hag, hid, hug, and ugh — 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in languished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, as, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
languished 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
languished is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing languished unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is languished, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from languished 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 languished produce 789 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 18 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 136 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 229 four-letter words, 114 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.