Hidden inside legated sit gelated and legated, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelated and legated tie for the highest Scrabble score from legated at 9 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in legated: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legated itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelated and legated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legated turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is eagled, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt. For points, the strongest plays are galed, gated, glade, glede, gleed, and ledge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legated produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, deal, edge, gate, glad, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aged, edge, egad, gaed, geed, geld, glad, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legated turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gal, gee, get, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 legated and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
legated 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
legated is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelated and legated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legated 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 legated produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.