extralegal needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extralegal is the highest-scoring word from extralegal, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in extralegal — and it is extralegal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extralegal produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exalter, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extralegal turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relate and taller. For points, the strongest plays are aglare, alegar, allege, eaglet, ergate, galeae, galere, gallet, gelate, laager, legate, regale, reglet, telega, and tergal — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extralegal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alert, altar, alter, extra, great, and greet. For points, the strongest play is galax — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in extralegal produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, gate, late, rage, rate, real, and tale. For points, the strongest plays are axal, axel, axle, and taxa — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extralegal turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are axe, lax, lex, rax, rex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extralegal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
extralegal 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 extralegal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
extralegal is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extralegal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extralegal, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extralegal 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 extralegal produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.