Hidden inside isolating sit intaglios, isolating, and ligations, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 368 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intaglios, isolating, and ligations tie for the highest Scrabble score from isolating at 10 points. The top 10 of 368 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in isolating: two come from rearranging its letters, and isolating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolating. For points, the strongest plays are intaglios, isolating, and ligations — 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isolating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antilogs, intaglio, ligation, solating, and tailings, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in isolating produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, listing, and sailing. For points, the strongest plays are agonist, antilog, galiots, gitanos, intagli, lasting, latigos, listing, nilgais, sailing, salting, siloing, silting, slating, soiling, staling, tailing, tiglons, tilings, and toiling — 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 isolating turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, losing, signal, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, algins, aligns, anglos, atigis, gainst, galiot, gaslit, giants, gitano, glints, gloats, ingots, isling, lasing, latigo, liangs, ligans, lingas, lingos, logans, logins, losing, nilgai, oiling, sating, sigloi, signal, siting, slogan, soling, stingo, tangos, tasing, tiglon, tigons, tiling, toling, and tongas — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isolating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, gains, giant, goals, goats, lions, and loans. For points, the strongest plays are agios, agist, agons, algin, align, along, anglo, angst, atigi, gains, gaits, gaols, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gloat, glost, gnats, goals, goats, gonia, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, logan, logia, login, longs, sigil, sigla, signa, slang, sling, staig, stang, sting, tango, tangs, tigon, tings, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 isolating produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, gain, gals, goal, goat, and into. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, gain, gait, gals, gaol, gast, gats, gilt, gins, gist, gits, glia, gnat, goal, goas, goat, lags, lang, ling, logs, long, nags, nogs, sago, sang, sign, sing, slag, slog, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, ting, toga, togs, and tong — 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 isolating turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gal, gas, got, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ago, ags, gal, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, lag, log, nag, nog, sag, sig, tag, and tog — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isolating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. 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.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in isolating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in isolating 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.
isolating 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 isolating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
isolating is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing isolating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intaglios, isolating, and ligations, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from isolating 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 isolating produce 368 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.