Hidden inside tangyr is one standout: gantry, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TANGYR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GANTRY (noun), a structure for supporting railroad signals, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
gantry is the highest-scoring word from tangyr, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tangyr produces exactly one six-letter word: gantry. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangyr. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry and grant. For points, the strongest plays are angry, rangy, and tangy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tangyr produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gray, rang, and tray. For points, the strongest plays are gray and yang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tangyr turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and art. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangyr. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangyr plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tangyr 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 gantry, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tangyr 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 tangyr produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.