Hidden inside megatons sit magnetos, megatons, and montages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magnetos, megatons, and montages tie for the highest Scrabble score from megatons at 11 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in megatons: two come from rearranging its letters, and megatons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are magnetos, megatons, and montages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in megatons produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amongst, magnets, and tangoes. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including amongst, magnets and magneto.
Unscrambling megatons turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, gnomes, magnet, and tangos. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including gnomes, magnet and gamest.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megatons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, among and atoms. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including among, games and gnome.
Rearranging the letters in megatons produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, amen and ants. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including game, mage and mags.
Unscrambling megatons turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megatons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in megatons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in megatons and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
megatons 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for megatons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
megatons is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing megatons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are magnetos, megatons, and montages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from megatons 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 megatons produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.