Hidden inside aiglets sit aiglets, gelatis, and ligates, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aiglets, gelatis, and ligates tie for the highest Scrabble score from aiglets at 8 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in aiglets: two come from rearranging its letters, and aiglets 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 aiglets, gelatis, and ligates, 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 aiglets turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ageist, aglets, aiglet, gaslit, gelati, legist, legits, ligase, ligate, and silage, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aiglets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates, least, stage, steal, tails, and tales. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, agist, aglet, gaits, gales, gates, gelts, getas, gilts, gites, glias, legit, sigla, stage, and staig — 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 aiglets produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east, eats, gals, gate, gets, and last. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gait, gale, gals, gast, gate, gats, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, gies, gilt, gist, gite, gits, glia, lags, legs, sage, slag, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 aiglets turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gal, gas, get, and its. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gat, gel, get, gie, gis, git, lag, leg, sag, seg, sig, 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 aiglets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, 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.
Swap a single tile in aiglets 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.
aiglets 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 2-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 aiglets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
aiglets is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aiglets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aiglets, gelatis, and ligates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aiglets 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 aiglets produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.