tongue needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ENOTUG, EUGOTN or GUENOT and you get the same 6 letters as TONGUE: so the words from TONGUE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
tongue is the highest-scoring word from tongue, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tongue — and it is tongue itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongue. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are togue and ungot, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tongue produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, note, tone, and tune. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including gone, gent and genu.
Unscrambling tongue turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including ego, get and got.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tongue plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tongue 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.
tongue 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 ten senses for tongue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tongue is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tongue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tongue, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tongue 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 tongue produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.