Hidden inside alignment sit alignment and lamenting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alignment and lamenting tie for the highest Scrabble score from alignment at 12 points. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in alignment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alignment itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alignment and lamenting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alignment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligament, mantling, metaling, and tegminal, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alignment produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaning, meaning, and melting. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including meaning, melting and geminal.
Unscrambling alignment turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, magnet and mental. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including magnet, mingle and naming.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alignment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien and angel. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including image, gamin and gimel.
Rearranging the letters in alignment produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, gain and game. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including game, glam and glim.
Unscrambling alignment turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alignment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in alignment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alignment and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
alignment 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for alignment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
alignment is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alignment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alignment and lamenting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alignment 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 alignment produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.