Hidden inside legation sit gelation and legation, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 285 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelation and legation tie for the highest Scrabble score from legation at 9 points. The top 10 of 285 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in legation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legation 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 gelation and legation, 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 legation produces 10 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 antilog, atingle, elating, gelatin, genital, lentigo, tagline, and tangelo, 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 legation turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating. For points, the strongest plays are aiglet, eating, eloign, galiot, gelant, gelati, gelato, genial, gentil, gitano, goalie, ingate, latigo, legato, legion, ligate, linage, tagine, tangle, tiglon, tingle, toeing, and toling — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, alone, along, angel, angle, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agile, aglet, agone, algin, align, along, angel, angle, anglo, genoa, giant, glean, glint, gloat, gonia, ingle, ingot, legit, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, login, longe, tango, tigon, tinge, togae, and tonga — 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 legation produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate, goal, goat, gone, into, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, egal, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gaol, gate, gean, gelt, gent, geta, gien, gilt, gite, glen, glia, gnat, goal, goat, gone, lang, ling, loge, long, ogle, tang, ting, toga, and tong — 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 legation turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ate, eat, ego, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ego, eng, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, goa, got, lag, leg, log, nag, neg, nog, tag, teg, and tog — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — 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 legation 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.
legation 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 two senses for legation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
legation is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelation and legation, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legation 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 legation produce 285 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.