Hidden inside pangolins sit pangolins and plainsong, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pangolins and plainsong tie for the highest Scrabble score from pangolins at 12 points. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pangolins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pangolins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pangolins and plainsong, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pangolins. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pangolin, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pangolins produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loaning. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including lapsing, palings and pinangs.
Unscrambling pangolins turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing, pianos, posing, and signal. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including posing, galops and gipons.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pangolins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, gains and goals. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including aping, galop and gipon.
Rearranging the letters in pangolins produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laps and lion. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, gaps and pang.
Unscrambling pangolins turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gal and gap. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pangolins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pangolins plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pangolins 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.
pangolins 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 5-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 pangolins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pangolins is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pangolins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pangolins and plainsong, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pangolins 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 pangolins produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.