ligating needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligating is the highest-scoring word from ligating, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ligating — and it is ligating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ligating produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gaiting, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligating turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galing, gating, and gingal, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging and giant. For points, the strongest play is aging — 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 ligating produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are gang and giga — 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 ligating turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gag, gal, gig, lit, nag, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are gag, gig, and igg — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ligating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ligating and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ligating 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.
ligating is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ligating, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ligating 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 ligating produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.