paragons needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paragons is the highest-scoring word from paragons, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in paragons — and it is paragons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paragons produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paragon and parangs, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paragons turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with organs. For points, the strongest plays are pagans, pangas, parang, pargos, prangs, prongs, and sprang — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paragons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with organ and porns. For points, the strongest plays are gorps, grasp, pagan, panga, pangs, pargo, pongs, prang, progs, prong, spang, sprag, and sprog — 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 paragons produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gaps, nags, naps, pans, porn, pros, and rags. For points, the strongest plays are gaps, gasp, 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 paragons turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gap, gas, nag, nap, nor, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paragons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, no, on, or, and so. 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 paragons and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
paragons 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 paragons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
paragons is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paragons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paragons, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paragons 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 paragons produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.