Hidden inside legations sit gelations and legations, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 746 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelations and legations tie for the highest Scrabble score from legations at 10 points. The top 10 of 746 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in legations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelations and legations, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are antilogs, gasoline, gelatins, gelation, genitals, latigoes, legation, otalgies, solating, stealing, taglines, and tangelos — 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 legations produces 69 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, lasting, longest, sealing, seating, tangoes, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are agonies, agonise, agonist, aiglets, antilog, atingle, easting, eatings, elating, eloigns, galiots, gelants, gelatin, gelatis, gelatos, genista, genital, gitanos, glisten, goalies, ingates, ingesta, lasting, latigos, leasing, legatos, legions, lentigo, ligates, linages, lingoes, logiest, longest, longies, onstage, salting, sealing, seating, singlet, slating, sniglet, soilage, staling, tagines, tagline, tangelo, tangles, tangoes, teasing, tiglons, and tingles — 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 legations turns up 121 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aglets, agones, aiglet, algins, aligns, angels, angles, anglos, easing, eating, egoist, eloign, gainst, galiot, gaslit, gelant, gelati, gelato, genial, genoas, gentil, giants, gitano, gleans, glints, gloats, goalie, ingate, ingest, ingles, ingots, lasing, latigo, legato, legion, legist, legits, liangs, ligans, ligase, ligate, linage, lingas, lingos, logans, logins, longes, losing, sating, signal, signet, silage, single, slogan, soigne, soling, stinge, stingo, stogie, tagine, tangle, tangos, tasing, tiglon, tigons, tinges, tingle, toeing, toling, and tongas — 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 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, alone, along, angel, and angle. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agile, agios, agist, aglet, agone, agons, algin, align, along, angel, angle, anglo, angst, gains, gaits, gales, gaols, gates, geans, gelts, genoa, gents, getas, giant, gilts, gites, glans, glean, glens, glias, glint, gloat, glost, gnats, goals, goats, goest, gonia, ingle, ingot, legit, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, logan, loges, logia, login, longe, longs, ogles, segni, segno, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, slang, sling, stage, staig, stang, sting, tango, tangs, tigon, tinge, tings, togae, togas, tonga, and tongs — 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 legations produces 214 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, ants, lane, last, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, agio, agon, lags, lang, legs, ling, loge, logs, long, nags, negs, nogs, ogle, sage, sago, sang, sego, sign, sing, slag, slog, snag, snog, song, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, toga, togs, tong, egal, egis, egos, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gale, gals, gane, gaol, gast, gate, gats, gean, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glen, glia, gnat, goal, goas, goat, goes, and gone — 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 legations turns up 104 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, ags, ego, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, goa, gos, got, lag, leg, log, nag, neg, nog, sag, seg, sig, 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in legations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legations 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.
legations 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 legations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
legations is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelations and legations, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legations 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 legations produce 746 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 69 seven-letter words, 121 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 214 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.