Hidden inside tautologies sit tautologies and tautologise, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 616 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tautologies and tautologise tie for the highest Scrabble score from tautologies at 12 points. The top 10 of 616 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in tautologies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tautologies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tautologies and tautologise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tautologies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agouties, eulogias, eulogist, goatiest, goutiest, isologue, latigoes, and otalgies, 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 tautologies produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, outlets, toilets, and ugliest. For points, the strongest plays are agoutis, aiglets, augites, egotist, eulogia, galiots, galoots, gelatis, gelatos, gestalt, getouts, glottis, gluiest, goalies, goettas, gooiest, goolies, guttles, latigos, legatos, ligates, logiest, logouts, loogies, ologies, ologist, outages, outgoes, soilage, tautogs, and ugliest — 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 tautologies turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilts, latest, lattes, outlet, statue, titles, and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aglets, agloos, agouti, aiglet, augite, egoist, galiot, galoot, gaslit, gaults, gelati, gelato, getout, gloats, glouts, glutei, glutes, goalie, goetta, goolie, guiles, guilts, guttae, guttle, igloos, isolog, latigo, legato, legist, legits, ligase, ligate, logout, loogie, outage, outgas, silage, stogie, stooge, tautog, teguas, tegula, togate, togues, and uglies — 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 152 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tautologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, autos, gates, glues, goals, goats, and goose. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, agios, agist, aglet, agloo, aglus, agues, gaits, gales, gaols, gates, gault, gelts, getas, gilts, gites, glias, gloat, glost, glout, glues, glute, gluts, goals, goats, goest, goose, gotta, gouts, guest, guile, guilt, guise, gules, gusto, gutta, igloo, iglus, legit, loges, logia, logoi, logos, luges, ogles, outgo, sigla, stage, staig, tegua, tegus, togae, togas, togue, and usage — 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 tautologies produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, auto, last, late, legs, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agio, aglu, ague, lags, legs, loge, logo, logs, luge, lugs, ogle, sage, sago, sego, slag, slog, slug, stag, egal, egis, egos, gaes, gait, gale, gals, gaol, gast, gate, gats, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, gies, gilt, gist, gite, gits, glia, glue, glut, goal, goas, goat, goes, goos, gout, guls, gust, guts, iglu, tags, tegs, tegu, toga, togs, and tugs — 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 tautologies turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ate, eat, ego, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, gae, gal, gas, gat, gel, get, gie, gis, git, goa, goo, gos, got, gul, gut, lag, leg, log, lug, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, tog, and tug — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tautologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, 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 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in tautologies plus one additional letter.
tautologies 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 two senses for tautologies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tautologies is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tautologies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tautologies and tautologise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tautologies 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 tautologies produce 616 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 152 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.