Hidden inside tonnage sit negaton and tonnage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negaton and tonnage tie for the highest Scrabble score from tonnage at 8 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tonnage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tonnage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are negaton and tonnage, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tonnage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent and tango. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including agent, tango and agone.
Rearranging the letters in tonnage produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goat and gone. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including gate, goat and gone.
Unscrambling tonnage turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tonnage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tonnage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tonnage 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.
tonnage 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 tonnage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tonnage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tonnage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are negaton and tonnage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tonnage 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 tonnage produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.