alights needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alights is the highest-scoring word from alights, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in alights — and it is alights itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alights turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lights and slight. For points, the strongest plays are alight, laighs, lights, and slight — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hails, light, sight, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are ghast, ghats, laigh, light, and sight — 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 alights produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gals, hail, hats, hits, last, list, and sail. For points, the strongest plays are gash, ghat, ghis, hags, shag, and sigh — 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 alights turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, gal, gas, has, hat, his, and hit. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, hi, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, and sh — 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 alights 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.
alights 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for alights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alights is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alights, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alights 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 alights produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.