langouste needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 572 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
langouste is the highest-scoring word from langouste, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 572 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in langouste — and it is langouste itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langouste. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angulose, languets, and tangelos, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in langouste produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with longest, lounges, tangoes, and tongues. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including longest, lounges and tangoes.
Unscrambling langouste turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angels and angles. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including agents, angels and angles.
There are 155 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langouste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alone and along. For points, 70 words tie at 6 points, including agent, along and angel.
Rearranging the letters in langouste produces 197 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also and ants. For points, 78 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and logs.
Unscrambling langouste turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 34 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in langouste. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in langouste plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in langouste 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.
langouste 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 two senses for langouste. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
langouste is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing langouste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is langouste, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from langouste 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 langouste produce 572 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 155 five-letter words, 197 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.