Hidden inside ilgain sit ailing and nilgai, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ILGAIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AILING and NILGAI.
ailing and nilgai tie for the highest Scrabble score from ilgain at 7 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ilgain 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 ailing and nilgai, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ilgain. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algin, align, liang and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ilgain produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain and nail. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including gain, agin and glia.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ilgain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
19 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ilgain plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ilgain 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ailing and nilgai, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ilgain 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 ilgain produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.