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.
Rearranging the letters in tonnages produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tangoes. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including tangoes, gannets and negaton.
Unscrambling tonnages turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents and tangos. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including agents, tangos and agones.
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 and goats. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including agent, gates and goats.
Rearranging the letters in tonnages produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and east. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including ages, egos and gate.
Unscrambling tonnages turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 22 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
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 and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tonnages plus one additional letter.
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.