Hidden inside progeny sit progeny and pyrogen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
progeny and pyrogen tie for the highest Scrabble score from progeny at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in progeny: one comes from rearranging its letters, and progeny itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are progeny and pyrogen, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling progeny turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is perogy, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progeny. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pogey, pongy, and porgy, 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 progeny produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, grey, nope, open, orgy, pony, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are gypo and pogy — 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 progeny turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, nor, one, pen, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progeny. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 progeny 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.
progeny 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 2-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 progeny. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
progeny is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing progeny unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are progeny and pyrogen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from progeny 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 progeny produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.