Hidden inside ligans sit algins, aligns, lasing and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
algins, aligns, lasing and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligans at 7 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in ligans: six come from rearranging its letters, and ligans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signal. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, and signal — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains and nails. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, gains, glans, glias, liang, ligan, linga, lings, sigla, signa, slang, and sling — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ligans produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals, nags, nail, sail, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gals, gins, glia, lags, lang, ling, nags, sang, sign, sing, slag, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligans turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gas, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gal, gan, gas, gin, gis, lag, nag, sag, and sig — each worth 4 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 ligans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, 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.
34 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ligans plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ligans 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.
ligans 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 ligans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ligans is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are algins, aligns, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, and signal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligans 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 ligans produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.