pentagonal needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 337 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pentagonal is the highest-scoring word from pentagonal, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 337 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pentagonal — and it is pentagonal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentagonal produces exactly one nine-letter word: pantalone. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentagonal. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gantlope, neopagan, pentagon, and plangent, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentagonal produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pageant. For points, the strongest plays are apogeal, apogean, and pageant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentagonal turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planet. For points, the strongest plays are pangen, penang, pongal, and potage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentagonal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alone and along. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including agape, galop and pagan.
Rearranging the letters in pentagonal produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goal and goat. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including page, gape and glop.
Unscrambling pentagonal turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentagonal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pentagonal plus one additional letter.
pentagonal 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 pentagonal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pentagonal is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentagonal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pentagonal, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pentagonal 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 pentagonal produce 337 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.