Hidden inside uncages sit cangues and uncages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cangues and uncages tie for the highest Scrabble score from uncages at 10 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in uncages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and uncages 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 cangues and uncages, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling uncages turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cangue and uncage, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cause, and sauce. For points, the strongest plays are cages and guacs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in uncages produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus, cage, cans, case, cues, and guns. For points, the strongest plays are cage, guac, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling uncages turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, can, cue, gas, gun, nag, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, can, cue, ecu, sac, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in uncages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in uncages 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.
uncages 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
uncages is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uncages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cangues and uncages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from uncages 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 uncages produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.