legalises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalises is the highest-scoring word from legalises, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legalises — and it is legalises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalises. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legalises 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 aegises, ageless, alleges, galilee, gallies, gellies, glassie, legless, ligases, and silages, 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 legalises turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles and leases. For points, the strongest plays are allege, eagles, egises, glisse, legals, lieges, ligase, sieges, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, eases, gases, glass, lease, legal, and sails. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, aglee, eagle, gales, galls, gases, gills, glass, glees, glial, glias, legal, leges, liege, sages, siege, sigla, and slags — 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 legalises produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, else, gals, legs, less, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ages, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gees, gels, gies, gill, glee, glia, lags, legs, sage, sags, segs, sigs, 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 legalises turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all, ass, gal, gas, gee, and ill. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gee, 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 legalises. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in legalises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legalises 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.
legalises 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 legalises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
legalises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legalises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legalises 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 legalises produce 178 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, 19 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.