Hidden inside collegian sit allogenic and collegian, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 258 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allogenic and collegian tie for the highest Scrabble score from collegian at 12 points. The top 10 of 258 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in collegian: one comes from rearranging its letters, and collegian itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allogenic and collegian, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collegian. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are collagen and collegia, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collegian produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calling and logical. For points, the strongest plays are angelic, anglice, calling, celling, coaling, coinage, collage, congeal, galenic, and logical — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collegian turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon. For points, the strongest plays are agonic, coigne, gallic, glance, incage, lacing, and locing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collegian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone, along, angel, angle, clean, and clone. For points, the strongest plays are acing, clang, cling, coign, conga, conge, genic, glace, incog, and logic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collegian produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, call, cell, coin, cola, cone, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, cleg, and clog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collegian turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, all, can, con, ego, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collegian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, in, no, and on. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in collegian plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collegian 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.
collegian 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 collegian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
collegian is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collegian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allogenic and collegian, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from collegian 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 collegian produce 258 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.