Hidden inside strange sit argents, garnets, and strange, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ANGSTRE, EGRANTS or TRAGSEN and you get the same 7 letters as STRANGE: so the words from STRANGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
argents, garnets, and strange tie for the highest Scrabble score from strange at 8 points. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in strange: two come from rearranging its letters, and strange itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strange. For points, the strongest plays are argents, garnets, and strange — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strange turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, grants, and ranges. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including agents, angers and grants.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strange. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and earns. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including agent, anger and gates.
Rearranging the letters in strange produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and arts. For points, 36 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gate and gets.
Unscrambling strange turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strange. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
32 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in strange plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strange 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.
strange 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 three senses for strange. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
strange is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strange unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argents, garnets, and strange, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strange 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 strange produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.