Hidden inside aligned sit aligned, dealign, dealing and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aligned, dealign, dealing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from aligned at 9 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in aligned: three come from rearranging its letters, and aligned itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealing and leading. For points, the strongest plays are aligned, dealign, dealing, and leading — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aligned turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denial, gained, and nailed. For points, the strongest plays are angled, dangle, dingle, engild, gained, lading, lagend, and ligand — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aligned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, angle, ideal, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are algid, deign, dinge, galed, gelid, glade, gland, and glide — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aligned produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, deal, deli, dial, dine, gain, and glad. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, egad, gadi, gaed, geld, gied, gild, glad, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aligned turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, and, die, dig, end, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, ged, and gid — each worth 5 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 aligned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — 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 aligned 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.
aligned 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 aligned. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
aligned is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aligned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aligned, dealign, dealing, and leading, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aligned 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 aligned produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.