Hidden inside ligulas sit ligulas and lugsail, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligulas and lugsail tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligulas at 8 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ligulas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ligulas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligulas and lugsail, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligulas. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aglus, galls, gills and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ligulas produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gals and sail. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including gals, aglu and gall.
Unscrambling ligulas turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, gal, gas, and ill. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including gal, gas and ags.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligulas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ligulas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ligulas 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.
ligulas 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.
ligulas is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligulas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ligulas and lugsail, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligulas 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 ligulas produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.