Hidden inside ligase sit ligase and silage, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligase and silage tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligase at 7 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ligase: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ligase itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligase and silage, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, gales, glias, and sigla — 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 ligase produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals, legs, lies, sail, sale, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gals, gels, gies, glia, lags, legs, sage, and slag — 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 ligase turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, gas, leg, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gel, gie, gis, lag, leg, sag, seg, 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 ligase. 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.
Swap a single tile in ligase 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.
ligase 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ligase is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ligase and silage, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligase 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 ligase produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.