Hidden inside pingoes sit epigons, pigeons, and pingoes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epigons, pigeons, and pingoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pingoes at 10 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pingoes: two come from rearranging its letters, and pingoes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pigeons. For points, the strongest plays are epigons, pigeons, and pingoes — 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 pingoes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pigeon, ponies, posing, and sponge. For points, the strongest plays are epigon, genips, gipons, pengos, pigeon, pingos, pogies, posing, and sponge — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pingoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, opens, penis, and spine. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gipon, oping, pengo, pingo, pings, and pongs — 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 pingoes produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gone, nope, nose, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are gips, pegs, pigs, ping, and pong — 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 pingoes turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, one, pen, pie, pig, pin, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pingoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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 pingoes 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.
pingoes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
pingoes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pingoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epigons, pigeons, and pingoes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pingoes 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 pingoes produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.