argillites needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 560 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argillites is the highest-scoring word from argillites, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 560 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in argillites — and it is argillites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling argillites turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allergist, argillite, glairiest, and grisaille, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argillites. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are girliest, glariest, legalist and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in argillites produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest, rallies, saltier, and sillier. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including largest, aiglets and aigrets.
Unscrambling argillites turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and grills. For points, 44 words tie at 7 points, including grills, tigers and ageist.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argillites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alter. For points, 51 words tie at 6 points, including gates, girls and great.
Rearranging the letters in argillites produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and arts. For points, 45 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and rage.
Unscrambling argillites turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and all. For points, 23 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argillites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
argillites 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 argillites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
argillites is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argillites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is argillites, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from argillites 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 argillites produce 560 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.