Hidden inside legist sit legist and legits, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legist and legits tie for the highest Scrabble score from legist at 7 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in legist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legist 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 legist and legits, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legist. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelts, gilts, gites, and legit, 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 legist produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, legs, lets, lies, list, site, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are egis, gels, gelt, gest, gets, gies, gilt, gist, gite, gits, legs, and tegs — 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 legist turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, leg, let, lie, lit, and set. For points, the strongest plays are gel, get, gie, gis, git, leg, seg, sig, and teg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 legist 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.
legist 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.
legist is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legist and legits, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legist 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 legist produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.