Hidden inside tangerine sit argentine and tangerine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argentine and tangerine tie for the highest Scrabble score from tangerine at 10 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tangerine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tangerine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argentine and tangerine, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entering. For points, the strongest plays are antigene, entering, gratinee, and interage — 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 tangerine produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, renting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are aginner, anteing, antigen, earning, engrain, gentian, granite, grannie, grantee, gratine, greaten, ingrate, integer, nearing, negater, ranting, reagent, reginae, regnant, renting, ringent, tangier, tearing, and treeing — 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 tangerine turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, engine, entire, intern, neater, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are aigret, anting, argent, earing, eating, engine, engirt, enrage, ergate, gainer, gaiter, gannet, garnet, genera, gerent, ginner, gratin, ingate, innage, negate, rating, reagin, regain, regent, regina, tagine, taring, teeing, 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, eaten, enter, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agree, anger, eager, eagre, egret, garni, gater, genet, genie, genre, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, green, greet, ragee, range, regie, regna, reign, renig, retag, targe, tenge, terga, tiger, tinge, and tragi — 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 tangerine produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, gene, near, neat, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, agin, areg, eger, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gean, gear, gene, gent, geta, gien, girn, girt, gite, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gree, grin, grit, rage, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, and trig — 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 tangerine turns up 58 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, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gat, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tangerine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, 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.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tangerine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tangerine 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.
tangerine 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 four senses for tangerine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tangerine is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tangerine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argentine and tangerine, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tangerine 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 tangerine produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.