ligated needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligated is the highest-scoring word from ligated, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ligated — and it is ligated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ligated turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail. For points, the strongest play is gaited — worth 8 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 ligated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt and ideal. For points, the strongest plays are algid, galed, gated, gelid, glade, and glide — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ligated produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, deal, deli, dial, diet, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are aged, egad, gadi, gaed, geld, gied, gild, glad, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligated turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, ate, die, dig, eat, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — 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 ligated 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.
ligated 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.
ligated is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ligated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ligated 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 ligated produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.