blight needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BGHILT, TGBHIL or BLITHG and you get the same 6 letters as BLIGHT: so the words from BLIGHT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
blight is the highest-scoring word from blight, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in blight — and it is blight itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blight produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glib and hilt, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in blight plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blight 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.
blight 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 blight. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
blight is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blight unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blight, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blight 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 blight produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.