Hidden inside tonnages sit negatons and tonnages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negatons and tonnages tie for the highest Scrabble score from tonnages at 9 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tonnages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tonnages 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 negatons and tonnages, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tonnages produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are gannets, negaton, nonages, onstage, tangoes, and tonnage — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tonnages turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are agents, agones, gannet, genoas, nonage, 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tonnages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gates, goats, notes, stage, stone, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agone, agons, angst, gates, geans, genoa, gents, getas, gnats, goats, goest, gonna, segno, stage, stang, tango, tangs, togae, 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 tonnages produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, egos, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agon, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnat, goas, goat, goes, gone, nags, negs, nogs, sage, sago, sang, sego, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, tegs, 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 tonnages turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ate, eat, ego, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, goa, gos, got, nag, neg, nog, sag, seg, tag, teg, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tonnages. 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 tonnages 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.
tonnages 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 tonnages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tonnages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tonnages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are negatons and tonnages, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tonnages 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 tonnages produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.