Hidden inside longues is one standout: lounges, a seven-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LONGUES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LOUNGES (verb, form of lounge), to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy manner, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
lounges is the highest-scoring word from longues, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling longues produces exactly one seven-letter word: lounges. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longues turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lounge. For points, the strongest plays are gluons, gunsel, longes, lounge, and lunges — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, louse, and lungs. For points, the strongest plays are genus, glens, glues, gluon, gules, loges, longe, longs, luges, lunge, lungs, negus, ogles, segno, and slung — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in longues produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, glue, goes, gone, guns, legs, and logs. For points, the strongest plays are egos, engs, gels, gens, genu, glen, glue, gnus, goes, gone, guls, guns, legs, loge, logs, long, luge, lugs, lung, negs, nogs, nugs, ogle, sego, slog, slug, snog, snug, song, and sung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longues turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gun, leg, log, one, son, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, gel, gen, gnu, gos, gul, gun, leg, log, lug, neg, nog, nug, and seg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in longues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in longues 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lounges, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longues 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 longues produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.