alligator needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alligator is the highest-scoring word from alligator, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alligator — and it is alligator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alligator produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gorilla. For points, the strongest plays are galliot, gorilla, otalgia, and ragtail — 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 alligator turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argali, galiot, gloria, laogai, and latigo, 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alligator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, grill, trail, trial, and troll. For points, the strongest plays are agita, agora, agria, algal, algor, argal, argil, argol, argot, gator, glair, glial, gloat, goral, graal, grail, grill, griot, groat, largo, logia, taiga, targa, tragi, and trigo — 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 alligator produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, goal, goat, liar, oral, riot, and roll. For points, the strongest plays are agar, agio, agro, alga, gait, gala, gall, gaol, gill, gilt, girl, giro, girt, glia, goal, goat, grat, grit, grot, raga, ragi, toga, trig, and trog — 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 alligator turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, all, art, gal, got, and ill. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ago, gal, gar, gat, git, goa, gor, got, lag, log, org, rag, rig, tag, and tog — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alligator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, it, or, and to. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in alligator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alligator 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.
alligator 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 alligator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
alligator is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alligator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alligator, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alligator 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 alligator produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.