longans needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longans is the highest-scoring word from longans, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in longans — and it is longans itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longans turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anglos, logans, longan, and slogan, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, goals, and loans. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including along, goals and agons.
Rearranging the letters in longans produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, gals and goal. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including gals, goal and logs.
Unscrambling longans turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gal and gas. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including ago, gal and gas.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in longans plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in longans and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
longans 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 one sense for longans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
longans is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longans, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longans 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 longans produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.