Hidden inside tangou is one standout: nougat, a six-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TANGOU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to NOUGAT (noun), a chewy candy, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
nougat is the highest-scoring word from tangou, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tangou produces exactly one six-letter word: nougat. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tangou produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, goat, and tuna. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including goat, agon and gaun.
Unscrambling tangou turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant and got. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including ago, got and gun.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangou. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangou plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tangou 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nougat, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tangou 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 tangou produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.