Hidden inside legalist sit legalist, stillage, and tillages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalist, stillage, and tillages tie for the highest Scrabble score from legalist at 9 points. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in legalist: two come from rearranging its letters, and legalist 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 legalist, stillage, and tillages, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legalist produces 8 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 aiglets, gallets, gallies and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legalist turns up 22 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ageist, aglets, aiglet and 9 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates and least. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including gates, legal and stage.
Rearranging the letters in legalist produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east and eats. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and gate.
Unscrambling legalist turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ate. For points, 18 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in legalist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legalist 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.
legalist 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.
legalist is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legalist, stillage, and tillages, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legalist 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 legalist produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.