Hidden inside tanglers sit strangle and tanglers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 378 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strangle and tanglers tie for the highest Scrabble score from tanglers at 9 points. The top 10 of 378 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tanglers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tanglers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strangle. For points, the strongest plays are 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 tanglers produces 12 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, gelants, largest, 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 tanglers turns up 48 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, argent, argles, garnet, gaster, gaters, gelant, glares, gleans, gnarls, grants, grates, greats, lagers, larges, ranges, regnal, retags, sanger, stager, 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 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tanglers. 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, gater, gates, geans, gears, gelts, gents, getas, glans, glare, glean, glens, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grans, grant, grate, great, lager, large, rages, range, rangs, regal, regna, retag, sager, sarge, slang, stage, 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 tanglers produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, arts, earn, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, areg, 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, lags, lang, legs, nags, negs, rage, rags, rang, regs, sage, sang, slag, snag, stag, 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 tanglers turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. 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 tanglers. 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.
Swap a single tile in tanglers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tanglers 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.
tanglers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tanglers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strangle and tanglers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tanglers 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 tanglers produce 378 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.