plagues 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, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plagues is the highest-scoring word from plagues, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in plagues — and it is plagues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plagues 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 words are plages and plague, 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 plagues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, leaps, pages, pause, and plugs. For points, the strongest plays are gapes, gulps, pages, peags, plage, and plugs — 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 plagues produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes, gals, gaps, glue, laps, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are gape, gaps, gasp, gulp, page, peag, pegs, plug, 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 plagues turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape, gal, gap, gas, lap, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are gap, peg, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plagues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in plagues 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.
plagues 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for plagues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
plagues is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plagues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plagues, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plagues 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 plagues produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.