Hidden inside alighted sit alighted and gilthead, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alighted and gilthead tie for the highest Scrabble score from alighted at 13 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in alighted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alighted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alighted and gilthead, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alighted produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: delight and lighted, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alighted turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail and hailed. For points, the strongest plays are alight, daleth, hailed, halide, halted, hilted, and lathed — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alighted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, death, eight, hated, ideal, and light. For points, the strongest play is dight — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alighted produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, deal, deli, dial, diet, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahl, dhal, ghat, hade, haed, head, held, hide, and hied — 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 alighted turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, ate, die, dig, eat, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, ghi, had, hag, and hid — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alighted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 alighted and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
alighted 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
alighted is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alighted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alighted and gilthead, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alighted 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 alighted produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.