Hidden inside legionaries sit legionaries and regionalise, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1005 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legionaries and regionalise tie for the highest Scrabble score from legionaries at 12 points. The top 10 of 1005 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in legionaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legionaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are legionaries and regionalise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legionaries produces exactly one ten-letter word: seignorial. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legionaries turns up 15 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with releasing and religions. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including releasing, religions and algerines.
There are 46 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airlines, original, and religion. For points, 40 words tie at 9 points, including original, religion and aerogels.
Rearranging the letters in legionaries produces 110 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airline, erasing and general. For points, 76 words tie at 8 points, including erasing, general and glories.
Unscrambling legionaries turns up 217 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, airing and aliens. For points, 126 words tie at 7 points, including agrees, airing and angels.
There are 254 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aisle and alien. For points, 118 words tie at 6 points, including agree, along and angel.
Rearranging the letters in legionaries produces 228 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and also. For points, 80 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and logs.
Unscrambling legionaries turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and air. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in legionaries plus one additional letter.
legionaries 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.
legionaries is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legionaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legionaries and regionalise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legionaries 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 legionaries produce 1005 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 15 nine-letter words, 46 eight-letter words, 110 seven-letter words, 217 six-letter words, 254 five-letter words, 228 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.