Hidden inside tangerines sit argentines, gannetries, and tangerines, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 815 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentines, gannetries, and tangerines tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangerines at 11 points. The top 10 of 815 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in tangerines: two come from rearranging its letters, and tangerines 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 argentines, gannetries, and tangerines, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tangerines turns up 12 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resenting. For points, the strongest plays are agentries, antigenes, argentine, gannister, gratinees, renesting, reseating, resenting, stingaree, tangerine, and transgene — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, entering, intenser, sergeant, and steering. For points, the strongest plays are aginners, anergies, angriest, angstier, antigene, antigens, astringe, earnings, engrains, entering, estrange, ganister, gantries, gentians, gentries, gesneria, granites, grannies, grantees, gratinee, greatens, ingrates, integers, interage, negaters, rangiest, rantings, reagents, reesting, sergeant, sneering, steering, and tasering — 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 tangerines produces 111 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, eastern, engines, entries, erasing, insaner, and intense. For points, the strongest plays are aginner, aigrets, anteing, antigen, antings, argents, earings, earning, easting, eatings, engines, engrain, enrages, erasing, ergates, gainers, gaiters, gannets, garnets, gastrin, genista, gentian, gerents, ginners, granite, grannie, grantee, gratine, gratins, greaten, greisen, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, innages, integer, nearing, negater, negates, nesting, ranting, ratings, reagent, reagins, regains, regents, reginae, reginas, regnant, renting, restage, resting, ringent, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, snaring, stagier, staning, staring, stinger, strange, tagines, tangier, tearing, teasing, tensing, treeing, and triages — 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 tangerines turns up 174 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees, angers, easier, easing, easter, and eating. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agenes, agents, agrees, aigret, angers, anting, argent, eagers, eagres, earing, easing, eating, egesta, egrets, engine, engirt, enrage, ensign, ergate, gainer, gainst, gaiter, gannet, garnet, gaster, gaters, genera, genets, genies, genres, gentes, gerent, giants, ginner, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, grease, greats, greens, greets, ingate, ingest, innage, negate, ragees, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regent, regies, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, sagier, sanger, saning, sating, seeing, senega, sering, signee, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, targes, taring, tasing, teeing, tenges, tigers, tinges, and triage — 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 197 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, earns, eaten, enter, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agene, agent, agers, agist, agree, anger, angst, eager, eagre, egers, egest, egret, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, geest, genes, genet, genie, genre, gents, geste, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, green, grees, greet, grins, grist, grits, ragee, rages, ragis, range, rangs, reges, regie, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, serge, siege, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, tenge, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — 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 tangerines produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, nags, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, agin, areg, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, eger, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, grin, grit, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — 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 tangerines turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerines. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangerines plus one additional letter.
tangerines 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 four senses for tangerines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tangerines is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangerines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentines, gannetries, and tangerines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangerines 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 tangerines produce 815 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 12 nine-letter words, 43 eight-letter words, 111 seven-letter words, 174 six-letter words, 197 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.