Hidden inside triangles sit gnarliest, integrals, reslating and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 942 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gnarliest, integrals, reslating and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from triangles at 10 points. The top 10 of 942 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in triangles: three come from rearranging its letters, and triangles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with triangles. For points, the strongest plays are gnarliest, integrals, reslating, and triangles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triangles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, angriest, genitals, relating, stealing, strangle, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are alerting, aligners, altering, angriest, angstier, astringe, engrails, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genitals, glariest, granites, ingrates, integral, lasering, nargiles, rangiest, realigns, relating, ringlets, signaler, slangier, starling, stealing, sterling, strangle, taglines, tanglers, tanglier, tasering, tinglers, and triangle — 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 triangles produces 107 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, largest, lasting, nastier, ratings, resting, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are aiglets, aigrets, aligner, anglers, argents, atingle, earings, easting, eatings, elating, engrail, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garnets, gastrin, gelants, gelatin, gelatis, genista, genital, glaires, glisten, glister, granite, gratine, gratins, gristle, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, largest, lasting, leasing, ligates, linages, lingers, nargile, ratings, reagins, realign, regains, reginal, reginas, resting, ringlet, salting, seagirt, sealing, searing, seating, seringa, singlet, slating, slinger, sniglet, stagier, staling, staring, stinger, strange, tagines, tagline, tangier, tangler, tangles, tearing, teasing, tingler, tingles, and triages — 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 triangles turns up 187 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, alerts, aliens, alters, angels, angers, and angles. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aglets, aiglet, aigret, algins, aligns, angels, angers, angler, angles, argent, argils, argles, earing, easing, eating, engirt, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garnet, gaslit, gaster, gaters, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, giants, glaire, glairs, glares, gleans, glints, gnarls, grails, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, grilse, ingate, ingest, ingles, lagers, larges, lasing, legist, legits, liangs, ligans, ligase, ligate, ligers, linage, lingas, linger, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regilt, regina, regnal, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, sagier, sanger, sating, sering, signal, signer, signet, silage, singer, single, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, tangle, targes, taring, tasing, tergal, tigers, tinges, tingle, and triage — 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 249 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triangles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alert, alien, alter, angel, and anger. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agile, agist, aglet, algin, align, angel, anger, angle, angst, argil, argle, gains, gaits, gales, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, gelts, gents, getas, giant, gilts, girls, girns, girts, gites, glair, glans, glare, glean, glens, glias, glint, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grail, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, ingle, lager, large, legit, liang, ligan, liger, linga, lings, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regal, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, slang, sling, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — 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 triangles produces 224 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, trig, egal, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gale, gals, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, girl, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, glen, glia, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, and grit — 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 triangles turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triangles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in triangles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in triangles and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
triangles 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 five senses for triangles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
triangles is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing triangles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gnarliest, integrals, reslating, and triangles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from triangles 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 triangles produce 942 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 39 eight-letter words, 107 seven-letter words, 187 six-letter words, 249 five-letter words, 224 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.