Hidden inside pagans sit pagans and pangas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pagans and pangas tie for the highest Scrabble score from pagans at 9 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pagans: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pagans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pagans and pangas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pagans. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pagan, panga, pangs, and spang, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pagans produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gaps, nags, naps, pans, sang, and snap. For points, the strongest plays are gaps, gasp, and pang — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pagans turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gap, gas, nag, nap, and pan. For points, the strongest play is gap — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pagans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest play is pa — worth 4 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 pagans and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pagans 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 four senses for pagans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pagans is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pagans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pagans and pangas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pagans 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 pagans produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.