paragon needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paragon is the highest-scoring word from paragon, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in paragon — and it is paragon itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling paragon turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is parang, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paragon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with organ. For points, the strongest plays are pagan, panga, pargo, prang, and prong — 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 paragon produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with porn and rang. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, pang, pong, and prog — 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 paragon turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gap, nag, nap, nor, pan, and pro. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paragon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each 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 paragon and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
paragon 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 two senses for paragon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
paragon is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paragon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paragon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paragon 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 paragon produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.