allegiance needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allegiance is the highest-scoring word from allegiance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in allegiance — and it is allegiance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allegiance turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angelical, elegiacal, englacial, and galenical, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegiance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angelica and gallican, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allegiance produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calling. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including calling, angelic and anglice.
Unscrambling allegiance turns up 25 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are encage, gallic, glance and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegiance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, alien and angel. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including acing, clang and cling.
Rearranging the letters in allegiance produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, call and cell. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, and cleg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allegiance turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and can. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegiance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in allegiance plus one additional letter.
allegiance 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 two senses for allegiance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
allegiance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allegiance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allegiance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allegiance 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 allegiance produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.