leakages needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leakages is the highest-scoring word from leakages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in leakages — and it is leakages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leakages produces 2 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 leakage, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leakages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geeks, lakes, leaks, and lease. For points, the strongest plays are geeks and gleek — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leakages produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease and else. For points, the strongest plays are geek, kegs, skag, and skeg — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling leakages turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ask and gal. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in leakages 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.
leakages 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 leakages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
leakages is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leakages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is leakages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from leakages 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 leakages produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.