encourage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encourage is the highest-scoring word from encourage, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in encourage — and it is encourage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encourage produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courage. For points, the strongest plays are acrogen and courage — 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 encourage turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orange. For points, the strongest plays are cangue, congee, conger, cougar, encage, garcon, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encourage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, argue, grace, green, ocean, and organ. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cargo, conga, conge, grace, and guaco — 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 encourage produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care, cone, core, corn, cure, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are cage, crag, and guac — 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 encourage turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, can, car, con, and cue. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encourage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in encourage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in encourage 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.
encourage 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for encourage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
encourage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encourage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is encourage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from encourage 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 encourage produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.