allegory needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allegory is the highest-scoring word from allegory, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in allegory — and it is allegory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allegory produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allergy, gallery, and loyaler. For points, the strongest plays are allergy, gallery, largely, and regally — 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 allegory turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with really. For points, the strongest plays are argyle, argyll, and galley — each worth 10 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 allegory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alley, early, gayer, glory, large, layer, and legal. For points, the strongest plays are agley, gally, gayer, gelly, glary, glory, golly, gyral, and yager — 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 allegory produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goal, gray, grey, oral, orgy, rage, and real. For points, the strongest plays are agly, gley, gory, gray, grey, gyre, gyro, logy, orgy, yage, and yoga — 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 allegory turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, all, are, aye, ear, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, goy, and yag — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allegory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay, go, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 allegory and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
allegory 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 2-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 allegory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
allegory is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allegory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allegory, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allegory 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 allegory produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.