oxtongue needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oxtongue is the highest-scoring word from oxtongue, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in oxtongue — and it is oxtongue itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oxtongue produces exactly one seven-letter word: outgone. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxtongue. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outgo, togue, and ungot, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oxtongue produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, next and note. For points, the strongest plays are exon, next, and oxen — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oxtongue turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and goo. For points, the strongest play is gox — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxtongue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, go and no. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in oxtongue plus one additional letter.
oxtongue 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 oxtongue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
oxtongue is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oxtongue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oxtongue, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oxtongue 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 oxtongue produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.