Hidden inside alluring sit alluring and lingular, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alluring and lingular tie for the highest Scrabble score from alluring at 9 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in alluring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alluring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alluring and lingular, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alluring produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligular, lingual, and lingula, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alluring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grill. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including grill, algin and align.
Rearranging the letters in alluring produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, girl and liar. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including gain, girl and lung.
Unscrambling alluring turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and gal. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including gal, gun and nag.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alluring. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in alluring plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alluring 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.
alluring 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 one sense for alluring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
alluring is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alluring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alluring and lingular, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alluring 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 alluring produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.