Hidden inside montages 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 montages 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 montages: two come from rearranging its letters, and montages 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in montages produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amongst, magnets, and tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are amongst, magneto, magnets, mangoes, megaton, and montage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling montages turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, gnomes, magnet, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are gamest, gasmen, gemots, genoms, gnomes, magnet, magots, manges, mangos, mongst, and omegas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in montages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, among, atoms, games, gates, gnome, and goats. For points, the strongest plays are among, games, gemot, genom, gnome, mages, magot, mange, mango, ogams, and omega — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in montages produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, amen, ants, atom, mate, mean, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are mage, mags, mega, megs, mogs, ogam, smog, game, gams, and gems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling montages turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ate, eat, ego, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in montages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, go, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 montages 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.
montages 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 one sense for montages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
montages is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing montages 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 montages 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 montages 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.