tangencies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 472 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tangencies is the highest-scoring word from tangencies, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 472 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tangencies — and it is tangencies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tangencies turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ignescent and tangences, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agencies and instance. For points, the strongest plays are agencies, agenetic, enacting, encasing, genetics, scanting, scenting, and tangence — 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 tangencies produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient, casting, ceasing, engines, genetic, intense, and seating. For points, the strongest plays are actings, cagiest, canings, canting, casting, ceasing, censing, encages, genetic, and incages — 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 tangencies turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, agents, easing, eating, engine, giants, and insane. For points, the strongest plays are acting, caning, casing, encage, gestic, and incage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, cages, cease, cents, eaten, gains, and gates. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cages, and genic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tangencies produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, ants, cage, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tangencies turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ant, ate, can, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
tangencies 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for tangencies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tangencies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangencies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tangencies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tangencies 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 tangencies produce 472 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.