Hidden inside sonography sit nosography and sonography, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 403 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nosography and sonography tie for the highest Scrabble score from sonography at 19 points. The top 10 of 403 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in sonography: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sonography itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nosography and sonography, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sonography produces exactly one nine-letter word: sonograph. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sonography. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gryphons, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sonography produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orphans. For points, the strongest play is gryphon — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sonography turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honors, hooray, organs, and orphan. For points, the strongest plays are aphony, sharpy, and syphon — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sonography. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry, hangs, honor, hoops, horns, horny, and organ. For points, the strongest plays are harpy, hypos, phony, and sophy — each 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 sonography produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, argh, nags, naps, oops, orgy, and pans. For points, the strongest plays are hypo, hyps, and syph — 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 sonography turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, any, ash, gap, gas, gay, and goo. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sonography. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, ay, go, ha, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, ha, ho, oh, oy, sh, ya, 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.
sonography 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 one sense for sonography. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
sonography is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sonography unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nosography and sonography, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sonography 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 sonography produce 403 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.