ligatures needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 648 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligatures is the highest-scoring word from ligatures, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 648 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ligatures — and it is ligatures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligatures. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gestural, glariest, and ligature, 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 ligatures produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guitars, largest, rituals, saltier, and ugliest. For points, the strongest plays are aiglets, aigrets, augites, gaiters, gelatis, glaires, glister, gluiest, gristle, guitars, gustier, gutsier, largest, ligates, ligures, seagirt, stagier, tegular, triages, and ugliest — 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 ligatures turns up 110 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, argues, guilts, guitar, result, and ritual. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aglets, aiglet, aigret, argils, argles, argues, augers, augite, gaiter, gaslit, gaster, gaters, gaults, gelati, glaire, glairs, glares, gluers, gluier, glutei, glutes, grails, grates, gratis, greats, grilse, gruels, guiles, guilts, guitar, gulars, lagers, larges, legist, legits, ligase, ligate, ligers, ligure, lugers, regilt, regius, reguli, retags, rugate, sagier, sauger, silage, stager, targes, teguas, tegula, tergal, tigers, tragus, triage, uglier, and uglies — 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 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligatures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, argue, gates, girls, and glues. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agile, agist, aglet, aglus, agues, argil, argle, argue, argus, auger, gaits, gales, gater, gates, gault, gaurs, gears, gelts, getas, gilts, girls, girts, gites, glair, glare, glias, gluer, glues, glute, gluts, grail, grate, great, grist, grits, gruel, grues, guars, guest, guile, guilt, guise, gular, gules, iglus, lager, large, legit, liger, luger, luges, rages, ragis, regal, retag, rugae, rugal, sager, sarge, sigla, stage, staig, sugar, surge, targe, tegua, tegus, terga, tiger, tragi, trigs, trugs, urges, and usage — 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 ligatures produces 194 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, arts, last, late, legs, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, aglu, ague, areg, lags, legs, luge, lugs, rage, ragi, rags, regs, rigs, ruga, rugs, sage, slag, slug, stag, tags, tegs, tegu, trig, trug, tugs, urge, egal, egis, ergs, gaes, gait, gale, gals, gars, gast, gate, gats, gaur, gear, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, gies, gilt, girl, girt, gist, gite, gits, glia, glue, glut, grat, grit, grue, guar, guls, gust, guts, and iglu — 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 ligatures turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gal, gar, gas, gat, gel, get, gie, gis, git, gul, gut, lag, leg, lug, rag, reg, rig, rug, sag, seg, sig, tag, teg, and tug — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligatures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, and us. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ligatures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ligatures and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ligatures 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 six senses for ligatures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ligatures is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligatures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ligatures, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ligatures 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 ligatures produce 648 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 110 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 194 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.