ligaments needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 738 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligaments is the highest-scoring word from ligaments, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 738 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ligaments — and it is ligaments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals, manliest, stealing, and steaming. For points, the strongest plays are ligament, maltings, mangiest, metaling, mintages, misagent, smelting, steaming, and tegminal — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ligaments produces 69 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, magnets, melting, mingles, sealing, seating, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are enigmas, gamiest, gamines, geminal, gimlets, lingams, magnets, maligns, malting, mangels, mangles, masting, matings, melting, milages, mingles, mintage, seaming, sigmate, stigmal, teaming, and tegmina — each 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 ligaments turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easing, eating, and emails. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, enigma, gamest, gamine, gamins, gasmen, gimels, gimlet, gleams, glimes, images, laming, legman, lingam, magnet, malign, mangel, manges, mangle, mating, meting, milage, mingle, stigma, and taming — 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 183 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, angel, angle, email, and gains. For points, the strongest plays are agism, games, gamin, gimel, glams, gleam, glime, glims, image, mages, mange, and sigma — 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 ligaments produces 209 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, amen, ants, lame, lane, and last. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, mega, megs, migs, game, gams, gems, glam, and glim — 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 ligaments turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ant, ate, eat, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ligaments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ligaments and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ligaments 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for ligaments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ligaments is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligaments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ligaments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ligaments 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 ligaments produce 738 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 18 eight-letter words, 69 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 183 five-letter words, 209 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.