illegals needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
illegals is the highest-scoring word from illegals, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in illegals — and it is illegals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in illegals produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with illegal. For points, the strongest plays are gallies and illegal — 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 illegals turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are legals, ligase, and silage, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in illegals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle and legal. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, gales, galls, gills, glial, glias, legal, and sigla — 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 illegals produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals, legs, lies, sail, sale, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gels, gies, gill, glia, lags, legs, sage, and slag — 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 illegals turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all, gal, gas, ill, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gel, gie, gis, lag, leg, sag, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in illegals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in illegals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in illegals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
illegals 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 4-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 illegals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
illegals is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing illegals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is illegals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from illegals 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 illegals produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.