legislate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 324 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legislate is the highest-scoring word from legislate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 324 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legislate — and it is legislate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legislate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are egalites, galilees, legalise and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legislate produces 20 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aiglets, alleges, eaglets and 14 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legislate turns up 38 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ageist, aglets, aiglet and 19 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legislate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates and lease. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including gates, legal and stage.
Rearranging the letters in legislate produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease and east. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and gate.
Unscrambling legislate turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ate. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legislate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in legislate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legislate 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.
legislate 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 one sense for legislate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
legislate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legislate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legislate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legislate 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 legislate produce 324 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.