lichgates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 492 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lichgates is the highest-scoring word from lichgates, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 492 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lichgates — and it is lichgates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lichgates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glitches, lichgate, and teiglach, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lichgates produces 20 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 gatches and gitches, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lichgates turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castle, cheats and chiles. For points, the strongest plays are gaches and glitch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lichgates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, cages and chase. For points, the strongest plays are gatch and gitch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lichgates produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages and cage. For points, the strongest play is gach — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lichgates turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ash. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lichgates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in lichgates plus one additional letter.
lichgates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for lichgates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
lichgates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lichgates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lichgates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lichgates 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 lichgates produce 492 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.