Hidden inside rangy sit angry and rangy, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angry and rangy tie for the highest Scrabble score from rangy at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in rangy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rangy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry. For points, the strongest plays are angry and rangy — 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 rangy produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gray and rang. For points, the strongest plays are gray and yang — 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 rangy turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, gay, nag, rag, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rangy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — 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 rangy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
rangy 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for rangy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rangy is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rangy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angry and rangy, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rangy 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 rangy produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.