legalised needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalised is the highest-scoring word from legalised, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legalised — and it is legalised itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalised. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galilees and legalise, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legalised produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alleged and gallied, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legalised turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladies, sailed, and sealed. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including eagled, galled and gelled.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalised. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside and deals. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including edges, algid and degas.
Rearranging the letters in legalised produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including aged, digs and edge.
Unscrambling legalised turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dag and gad.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalised. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in legalised plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legalised 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.
legalised 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.
legalised is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalised unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legalised, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legalised 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 legalised produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.