legionnaire needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 451 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legionnaire is the highest-scoring word from legionnaire, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 451 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in legionnaire — and it is legionnaire itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legionnaire turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reloaning and renailing, 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 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionnaire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learning, original, and religion. For points, the strongest plays are algerine, aliening, arginine, eloigner, eloining, gainlier, geraniol, learning, ligroine, lingerie, nonglare, original, regional, religion, relining, and reoiling — 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 legionnaire produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airline, earning, general, leaning, loaning, nailing, and raining. For points, the strongest plays are aerogel, aginner, aligner, alining, aneling, eanling, earning, engrail, engrain, enlarge, erelong, general, ginnier, gleaner, grannie, ingrain, ironing, lairing, larning, leaning, leering, ligroin, lineage, lingier, loaning, nailing, nargile, nearing, negroni, railing, raining, realign, reeling, reginae, reginal, reining, and roiling — 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 legionnaire turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, engine, ignore, lining, longer, online, and orange. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, airing, angler, earing, eeling, eloign, engine, enrage, eringo, gainer, galere, galore, gaoler, genera, genial, ginner, girlie, glaire, gloria, goalie, ignore, innage, legion, lignan, lignin, linage, linger, lining, logier, longan, longer, nilgai, nonage, oaring, oiling, onager, onagri, orange, origan, origin, reagin, regain, regale, regina, region, regnal, and riling — 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 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionnaire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alien, alone, along, angel, anger, and angle. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agile, aglee, agone, agree, algin, algor, align, along, angel, anger, angle, anglo, argil, argle, argol, argon, eager, eagle, eagre, garni, genie, genii, genoa, genre, genro, giron, glair, glare, glean, gnarl, goner, gonia, gonna, goral, grail, grain, green, groan, groin, ingle, iring, lager, large, largo, leger, liang, liege, ligan, liger, linga, lingo, logan, logia, login, longe, ogler, orang, organ, ragee, range, regal, regie, regna, reign, and renig — 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 legionnaire produces 119 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 agee, ager, agin, agio, agon, agro, areg, lang, ling, loge, long, ogee, ogle, ogre, rage, ragi, rang, ring, egal, eger, ergo, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gaol, gean, gear, gene, gien, girl, girn, giro, glee, glen, glia, gnar, goal, goer, gone, gore, gran, gree, and grin — 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 legionnaire turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, are, ear, ego, and era. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ego, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, goa, gor, lag, leg, log, nag, neg, nog, org, rag, reg, and rig — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legionnaire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, in, no, on, and or. 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.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in legionnaire plus one additional letter.
legionnaire 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 4-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 legionnaire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
legionnaire is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legionnaire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legionnaire, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legionnaire 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 legionnaire produce 451 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.