Hidden inside tangos sit tangos and tongas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tangos and tongas tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangos at 7 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tangos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tangos. For points, the strongest plays are 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goats and tango. For points, the strongest plays are agons, angst, gnats, goats, stang, tango, tangs, 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 tangos produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, goat, nags, sang, song, tags, and tans. For points, the strongest plays are agon, gast, gats, gnat, goas, goat, nags, nogs, sago, sang, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, 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 tangos turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gas, got, nag, not, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ago, ags, gan, gas, gat, goa, gos, got, nag, nog, sag, tag, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangos. 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 tangos and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tangos 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for tangos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tangos is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tangos and tongas, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangos 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 tangos produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.