levigate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levigate is the highest-scoring word from levigate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in levigate — and it is levigate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in levigate produces 3 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 vegetal, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling levigate turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glaive and vagile, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alive and leave. For points, the strongest plays are gavel and vegie — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in levigate produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, gate and gave. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling levigate turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levigate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in levigate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in levigate 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.
levigate 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.
levigate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levigate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is levigate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from levigate 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 levigate produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.