Hidden inside onagers sit onagers and oranges, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
onagers and oranges tie for the highest Scrabble score from onagers at 8 points. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in onagers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and onagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oranges. For points, the strongest plays are onagers and oranges — 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 onagers turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, orange, organs, ranges, and reason. For points, the strongest plays are agones, angers, argons, genoas, genros, goners, groans, onager, orange, orangs, organs, ranges, sanger, and sarong — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in onagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, organ, rages, range, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are agers, agone, agons, agros, anger, argon, geans, gears, genoa, genro, gnars, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grans, groan, ogres, orang, organ, rages, range, rangs, regna, sager, sarge, sargo, and segno — 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 onagers produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, earn, ears, egos, eras, goes, and gone. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agon, agro, areg, egos, engs, ergo, ergs, gaen, gaes, gane, gars, gean, gear, gens, gnar, goas, goer, goes, gone, gore, gran, nags, negs, nogs, ogre, orgs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sago, sang, sego, snag, snog, and song — 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 onagers turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, ear, ego, era, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gen, goa, gor, gos, nag, neg, nog, org, rag, reg, sag, and seg — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in onagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag 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 onagers 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.
onagers 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 two senses for onagers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
onagers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing onagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are onagers and oranges, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from onagers 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 onagers produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.