Hidden inside pirogues sit groupies and pirogues, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
groupies and pirogues tie for the highest Scrabble score from pirogues at 11 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pirogues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pirogues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are groupies and pirogues, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pirogues produces 6 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 groupie, perogis, pirogue, porgies, and serpigo, 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 pirogues turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groups and orgies. For points, the strongest plays are gripes, gropes, groups, perogi, pogies, purges, and spurge — 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pirogues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, group, pours, purse, ropes, super, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are gorps, gripe, grips, grope, group, pirog, prigs, progs, purge, sprig, sprog, and sprug — 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 pirogues produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, grip, ours, pies, pigs, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are gips, gorp, grip, pegs, pigs, prig, prog, and pugs — 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 pirogues turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, our, per, pie, pig, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, pig, and pug — 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 pirogues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is, or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in pirogues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pirogues 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.
pirogues 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 one sense for pirogues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pirogues is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pirogues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are groupies and pirogues, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pirogues 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 pirogues produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.