Hidden inside ologies sit goolies, loogies, and ologies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goolies, loogies, and ologies tie for the highest Scrabble score from ologies at 8 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ologies: two come from rearranging its letters, and ologies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goolies, loogies, and ologies, 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 ologies turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goolie, igloos, isolog, and loogie, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goose and loose. For points, the strongest plays are goose, igloo, loges, logoi, logos, and ogles — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ologies produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, legs, lies, logs, lose, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are egis, egos, gels, gies, goes, goos, legs, loge, logo, logs, ogle, sego, and slog — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ologies turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, goo, leg, lie, log, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are ego, gel, gie, gis, goo, gos, leg, log, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 ologies 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.
ologies 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 2-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 ologies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ologies is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ologies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are goolies, loogies, and ologies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ologies 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 ologies produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.