Hidden inside tangram sit tangram and trangam, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tangram and trangam tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangram at 10 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tangram: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangram itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tangram and trangam, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangram. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grant. For points, the strongest plays are grama and manga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tangram produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rang. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, gram, and marg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tangram turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are gam and mag — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangram. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are am and ma — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangram plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tangram 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.
tangram 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 one sense for tangram. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tangram is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangram unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tangram and trangam, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangram 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 tangram produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.