Hidden inside elegies sit elegies and elegise, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elegies and elegise tie for the highest Scrabble score from elegies at 8 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in elegies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elegies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elegies and elegise, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elegies turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelees and lieges, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elegies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese. For points, the strongest plays are geese, gelee, glees, leges, liege, and siege — 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 elegies produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are egis, gees, gels, gies, glee, and legs — 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 elegies turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, leg, lie, and see. For points, the strongest plays are gee, gel, gie, gis, leg, seg, and sig — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elegies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 elegies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
elegies 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 one sense for elegies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
elegies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elegies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elegies and elegise, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elegies 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 elegies produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.