legitimate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legitimate is the highest-scoring word from legitimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in legitimate — and it is legitimate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mitigate, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legitimate produces 6 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 meltage and mileage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legitimate turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gamete, gimlet, metage, and milage, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, image, latte, limit, metal, and title. For points, the strongest plays are gimel, gleam, glime, and image — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legitimate produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, gate, item, lame, late, mail, and male. For points, the strongest plays are game, glam, glim, mage, magi, and mega — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling legitimate turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ate, eat, gal, gee, and get. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in legitimate plus one additional letter.
legitimate 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 seven senses for legitimate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
legitimate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legitimate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legitimate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legitimate 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 legitimate produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.