legalisms needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalisms is the highest-scoring word from legalisms, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legalisms — and it is legalisms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalisms. 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 legalisms produces 12 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 ageisms, 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 legalisms turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, emails, images, smells, and smiles. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, agisms, gimels, gleams, glimes, images, megass, milage, and sigmas — 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, games, gases, glass, image, and legal. 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 legalisms produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, gals, game, lame, legs, and less. 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 legalisms turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, all, ass, gal, gas, and ill. 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 legalisms. 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 legalisms 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.
legalisms 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 legalisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
legalisms is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legalisms, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legalisms 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 legalisms produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.