Hidden inside legman sit legman, mangel, and mangle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legman, mangel, and mangle tie for the highest Scrabble score from legman at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in legman: two come from rearranging its letters, and legman 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 legman, mangel, and mangle, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel and angle. For points, the strongest plays are gleam and mange — 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 legman produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, game, lame, lane, lean, male, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are game, glam, mage, 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 legman turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, leg, man, men, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, and meg — 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 legman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 legman 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.
legman 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.
legman is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legman, mangel, and mangle, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legman 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 legman produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.