Hidden inside tangoes sit onstage and tangoes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
onstage and tangoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangoes at 8 points. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tangoes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangoes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are onstage and tangoes — 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 tangoes turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are agents, agones, genoas, tangos, and tongas — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gates, goats, notes, stage, stone, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agone, agons, angst, gates, geans, genoa, gents, getas, gnats, goats, goest, segno, stage, stang, tango, tangs, togae, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 tangoes produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, egos, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agon, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnat, goas, goat, goes, gone, nags, negs, nogs, sage, sago, sang, sego, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, tegs, toga, togs, and tong — 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 tangoes turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ate, eat, ego, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, goa, gos, got, nag, neg, nog, sag, seg, tag, teg, and tog — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each 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 tangoes 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.
tangoes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
tangoes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are onstage and tangoes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangoes 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 tangoes produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.