strangles needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 466 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strangles is the highest-scoring word from strangles, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 466 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in strangles — and it is strangles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strangles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strangle. For points, the strongest plays are stranges, strangle, and tanglers — 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 strangles produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest and strange. For points, the strongest plays are anglers, argents, garnets, gasters, gelants, largess, largest, sangers, stagers, strange, tangler, and tangles — 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 strangles turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, alerts, alters, angels, angers, angles, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are agents, aglets, angels, angers, angler, angles, angsts, argent, argles, garnet, gasser, gaster, gaters, gelant, glares, gleans, gnarls, grants, grates, greats, lagers, larges, ranges, regnal, retags, sagest, sanger, sarges, slangs, stager, stages, stangs, strang, tangle, targes, and tergal — 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 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strangles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert, alter, angel, anger, angle, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agers, aglet, angel, anger, angle, angst, argle, gales, gases, gasts, gater, gates, geans, gears, gelts, gents, gests, getas, glans, glare, glass, glean, glens, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, grass, grate, great, lager, large, rages, range, rangs, regal, regna, retag, sager, sages, sarge, slags, slang, snags, stage, stags, stang, tangs, targe, and terga — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in strangles produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, arts, lane, last, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, lags, lang, legs, nags, negs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sags, sang, segs, slag, snag, stag, egal, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gale, gals, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, glen, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, tags, tang, and tegs — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling strangles turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, sag, seg, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strangles. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in strangles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strangles and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
strangles 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 3-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 strangles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
strangles is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strangles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is strangles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from strangles 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 strangles produce 466 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.