tongues needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOUTENG, SENGOUT or GOUNSET and you get the same 7 letters as TONGUES: so the words from TONGUES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
tongues is the highest-scoring word from tongues, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tongues — and it is tongues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest, notes and stone. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including guest, stung and gents.
Rearranging the letters in tongues produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets and goes. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including egos, gets and goes.
Unscrambling tongues turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ego, get and got.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no and on. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tongues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tongues 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.
tongues 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.
tongues is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tongues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tongues, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tongues 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 tongues produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.