Hidden inside ligation sit intaglio and ligation, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intaglio and ligation tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligation at 9 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ligation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ligation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intaglio and ligation, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ligation produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antilog, intagli, tailing, and toiling, 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 ligation turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailing, galiot, gitano, latigo, nilgai, oiling, tiglon, tiling, and toling, 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, along, anglo, atigi, giant, glint, gloat, gonia, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, login, tango, tigon, and tonga — 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 ligation produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goal, goat, into, lion, loan, and long. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, gain, gait, gaol, gilt, glia, gnat, goal, goat, lang, ling, long, tang, ting, toga, and tong — 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 ligation turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, gal, got, lit, log, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are ago, gal, gan, gat, gin, git, goa, got, lag, log, nag, nog, tag, and tog — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — 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 ligation 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.
ligation 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 ligation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ligation is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intaglio and ligation, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligation 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 ligation produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.