Hidden inside otalgies sit latigoes and otalgies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
latigoes and otalgies tie for the highest Scrabble score from otalgies at 9 points. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in otalgies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and otalgies 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 latigoes and otalgies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in otalgies produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate. For points, the strongest plays are aiglets, galiots, gelatis, gelatos, goalies, latigos, legatos, ligates, logiest, and soilage — 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 otalgies turns up 23 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ageist, aglets, aiglet, egoist, galiot, gaslit, gelati, gelato, gloats, goalie, latigo, legato, legist, legits, ligase, ligate, silage, and stogie, 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in otalgies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates, goals, goats, least, stage, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, agios, agist, aglet, gaits, gales, gaols, gates, gelts, getas, gilts, gites, glias, gloat, glost, goals, goats, goest, legit, loges, logia, ogles, sigla, stage, staig, togae, and togas — 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 otalgies produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, east, eats, egos, gals, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agio, egal, egis, egos, gaes, gait, gale, gals, gaol, gast, gate, gats, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, gies, gilt, gist, gite, gits, glia, goal, goas, goat, goes, lags, legs, loge, logs, ogle, sage, sago, sego, slag, slog, stag, tags, tegs, toga, and togs — 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 otalgies turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ate, eat, ego, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, gae, gal, gas, gat, gel, get, gie, gis, git, goa, gos, got, lag, leg, log, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, and tog — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in otalgies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag, 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 otalgies 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.
otalgies 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.
otalgies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing otalgies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are latigoes and otalgies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from otalgies 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 otalgies produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.