Hidden inside legators sit gloaters and legators, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 432 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gloaters and legators tie for the highest Scrabble score from legators at 9 points. The top 10 of 432 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in legators: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legators 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 gloaters and legators, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legators produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with largest and storage. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including largest, storage and galores.
Unscrambling legators turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts and alters. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including aglets, algors and argles.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and gates. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including gates, goals and goats.
Rearranging the letters in legators produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also and arts. For points, 51 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and logs.
Unscrambling legators turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, 27 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in legators plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legators 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.
legators 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.
legators is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gloaters and legators, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legators 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 legators produce 432 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.