Hidden inside ligaw sit wail and wali, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. Short on board space? wag and wig match that same 7-point score in Scrabble while spending only three letters each — efficient picks when the long play won't fit. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WAGLI, WAILG or WIGAL and you get the same 5 letters as LIGAW: so the words from LIGAW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
wail, wali, wag and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligaw at 7 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ligaw produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are wail and wali, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wail, wali, wag, and wig, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligaw 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 ligaw produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.