legitimise 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, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legitimise is the highest-scoring word from legitimise, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in legitimise — and it is legitimise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legitimise produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gimlets, 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 legitimise turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limits. For points, the strongest plays are gimels, gimlet, and glimes — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, limit, meets, melts, miles, smelt, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are gimel, glime, and glims — 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 legitimise produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gets, item, legs, lets, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are gems, glim, megs, and migs — 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 legitimise turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, its, leg, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are gem, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in legitimise plus one additional letter.
legitimise 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 legitimise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
legitimise is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legitimise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legitimise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legitimise 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 legitimise produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.