Hidden inside legacies sit elegiacs and legacies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elegiacs and legacies tie for the highest Scrabble score from legacies at 11 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in legacies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and legacies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elegiacs and legacies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling legacies produces exactly one seven-letter word: elegiac. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legacies turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glaces and glacis, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legacies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, cages, cease, lease, scale, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are cages, clags, clegs, and glace — 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 legacies produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage, case, ease, else, gals, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, clag, cleg, and scag — 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 legacies turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, gas, gee, ice, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legacies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in legacies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legacies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
legacies 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 legacies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
legacies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legacies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elegiacs and legacies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legacies 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 legacies produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.