legionary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 419 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legionary is the highest-scoring word from legionary, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 419 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legionary — and it is legionary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionary. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are layering, relaying, yearling, and yearlong, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legionary produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relying. For points, the strongest plays are angerly, angrily, orangey, relying, and yealing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legionary turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignore, laying, longer, nearly, orange, and region. For points, the strongest plays are anergy, argyle, eryngo, gainly, glairy, gnarly, gorily, grainy, groyne, laying, orangy, and raying — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone, along, angel, anger, angle, and angry. For points, the strongest plays are agley, agony, angry, eying, gaily, gayer, girly, glary, glory, gynie, gyral, gyron, lingy, lying, rangy, yager, and yogin — 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 legionary produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, liar, line, lion, loan, and long. For points, the strongest plays are agly, logy, orgy, gley, gory, gray, grey, gyno, gyre, gyri, gyro, yage, yagi, yang, yoga, and yogi — 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 legionary turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, any, are, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, goy, and yag — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, go, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in legionary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legionary 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.
legionary 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for legionary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
legionary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legionary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legionary, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legionary 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 legionary produce 419 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.