Hidden inside tangrams sit tangrams and trangams, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tangrams and trangams tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangrams at 11 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tangrams: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangrams itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tangrams and trangams, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tangrams produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tangrams turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grants. For points, the strongest plays are gasman, gramas, mangas, and ragman — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangrams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grant and smart. For points, the strongest plays are agmas, gamas, grama, grams, manga, and margs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tangrams produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arms, arts, nags, rags, rang, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, gams, gram, mags, and marg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tangrams turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, arm, art, gas, man, nag, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are gam and mag — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangrams. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are am and ma — each worth 4 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 tangrams 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.
tangrams 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 tangrams. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tangrams is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangrams unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tangrams and trangams, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangrams 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 tangrams produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.