alleges needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alleges is the highest-scoring word from alleges, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in alleges — and it is alleges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alleges turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allege, eagles, and legals, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alleges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lease and legal. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including legal, aglee and eagle.
Rearranging the letters in alleges produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease and else. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and legs.
Unscrambling alleges turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and gal. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in alleges plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alleges 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.
alleges 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 one sense for alleges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
alleges is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alleges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alleges, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alleges 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 alleges produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.