Hidden inside legalism sit legalism, megillas, and millages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalism, megillas, and millages tie for the highest Scrabble score from legalism at 11 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in legalism: two come from rearranging its letters, and legalism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are legalism, megillas, and millages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legalism produces 4 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 megilla, milages, and millage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legalism turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails and images. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, gimels, gleams, glimes, images, and milage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, games, image, legal, mails, and males. For points, the strongest plays are agism, games, gimel, glams, gleam, glime, glims, image, mages, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legalism produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, gals, game, lame, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, glam, glim, mage, magi, mags, mega, megs, and migs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legalism turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, all, gal, gas, ill, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in legalism 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.
legalism 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 legalism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
legalism is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legalism, megillas, and millages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legalism 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 legalism produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.