Hidden inside legion sit eloign and legion, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eloign and legion tie for the highest Scrabble score from legion at 7 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in legion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eloign and legion, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legion. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ingle, lingo, login, and longe, 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 legion produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, line, lion, and long. For points, the strongest plays are gien, glen, gone, ling, loge, long, and ogle — 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 legion turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, leg, lie, log, oil, and one. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, leg, log, neg, and nog — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are 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 legion and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
legion 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 five senses for legion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
legion is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eloign and legion, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legion 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 legion produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.