Hidden inside anlage sit anlage and galena, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anlage and galena tie for the highest Scrabble score from anlage at 7 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in anlage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and anlage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anlage and galena, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anlage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel and angle. For points, the strongest plays are alang, algae, angel, angle, galea, glean, and lagan — 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 anlage produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane and lean. For points, the strongest plays are alga, anga, egal, gaen, gala, gale, gane, gean, glen, lang, and naga — 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 anlage turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, leg, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are aga, age, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, lag, leg, nag, and neg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anlage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 anlage and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
anlage 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 one sense for anlage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
anlage is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anlage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anlage and galena, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anlage 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 anlage produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.