Hidden inside allegories sit allegories and allegorise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 491 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allegories and allegorise tie for the highest Scrabble score from allegories at 11 points. The top 10 of 491 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in allegories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allegories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allegories and allegorise, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling allegories turns up 2 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: allergies and galleries, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gorillas. For points, the strongest plays are aerogels, allegers, allegros, galilees, gaselier, gasolier, girasole, girolles, gorillas, legalise, and seraglio — 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 allegories produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glories, gorilla, and rallies. For points, the strongest plays are aerogel, alleger, alleges, allegro, galeres, galilee, gallies, galores, gaolers, gellies, gillers, girasol, girolle, glaires, glorias, glories, goalies, gorilla, grilles, regales, and soilage — 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 allegories turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, easier, grease, grills, orgies, relies, and sailor. For points, the strongest plays are agrees, algors, allege, argils, argles, argols, eagers, eagles, eagres, galere, galore, gaoler, giller, glaire, glairs, glares, gloria, goalie, gorals, grails, grease, grille, grills, grilse, lagers, larges, largos, legals, legers, lieges, ligase, ligers, logier, oglers, orgies, ragees, regale, regies, sagier, silage, and solgel — 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 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aisle, erase, girls, goals, grill, and large. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agile, agios, aglee, agree, agros, algor, argil, argle, argol, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, gales, galls, gaols, gears, gills, girls, giros, glair, glare, glees, glial, glias, goals, goers, goral, gores, gorse, grail, grees, grill, lager, large, largo, legal, leger, leges, liege, liger, loges, logia, ogees, ogler, ogles, ogres, ragee, rages, ragis, regal, reges, regie, sager, sarge, sargo, serge, siege, and sigla — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in allegories produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, also, legs, liar, lies, and logs. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, agio, agro, areg, lags, legs, loge, logs, ogee, ogle, ogre, orgs, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, sage, sago, sego, slag, slog, egal, eger, egis, egos, ergo, ergs, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gaol, gars, gear, gees, gels, gies, gill, girl, giro, glee, glia, goal, goas, goer, goes, gore, and gree — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling allegories turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, all, are, ear, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gee, gel, gie, gis, goa, gor, gos, lag, leg, log, org, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in allegories plus one additional letter.
allegories 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 three senses for allegories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
allegories is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allegories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allegories and allegorise, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allegories 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 allegories produce 491 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.