poignances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 546 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poignances is the highest-scoring word from poignances, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 546 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in poignances — and it is poignances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poignances turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is poignance, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with escaping and openings. For points, the strongest play is escaping — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in poignances produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceasing, opening, and pigeons. For points, the strongest plays are apogeic, copings, pacings, peacing, poncing, scaping, scoping, and spacing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling poignances turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, copies, easing, insane, oceans, panics, and pianos. For points, the strongest plays are caping, coping, and pacing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, capes, coins, cones, gains, nines, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capes, capon, capos, copen, copes, copse, epics, paces, panic, pecan, picas, pisco, ponce, scape, scopa, scope, sepic, space, spica, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in poignances produces 153 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes, nags, naps, nice, nine, and none. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pecs, pica, pice, pics, scop, spec, cape, capo, caps, ceps, cope, copi, cops, and epic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling poignances turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, can, cap, con, and cop. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poignances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in poignances plus one additional letter.
poignances 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 poignances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
poignances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poignances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is poignances, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poignances 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 poignances produce 546 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 153 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.