oxtongues needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oxtongues is the highest-scoring word from oxtongues, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in oxtongues — and it is oxtongues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oxtongues produces exactly one eight-letter word: oxtongue. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oxtongues produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tongues. For points, the strongest plays are gentoos, outgoes, outgone, and tongues — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxtongues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goose, guest and notes. For points, the strongest play is goxes — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oxtongues produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets and goes. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including next, exon and oxen.
Unscrambling oxtongues turns up 55 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxtongues. 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.
Swap a single tile in oxtongues and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
oxtongues 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 oxtongues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
oxtongues is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oxtongues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oxtongues, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oxtongues 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 oxtongues produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.