Hidden inside ligases sit glassie, ligases, and silages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glassie, ligases, and silages tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligases at 8 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ligases: two come from rearranging its letters, and ligases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glassie, ligases, and silages, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligases turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles. For points, the strongest plays are glisse, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gases, glass, sails, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, gales, gases, glass, glias, sages, sigla, and slags — 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 ligases produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals, legs, less, lies, sail, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gale, gals, gels, gies, glia, lags, legs, sage, sags, segs, sigs, 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 ligases turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, 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 ligases. 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 ligases and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ligases 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.
ligases is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glassie, ligases, and silages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligases 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 ligases produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.