Hidden inside ligure sit gluier, ligure, reguli and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gluier, ligure, reguli and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligure at 7 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in ligure: three come from rearranging its letters, and ligure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with uglier. For points, the strongest plays are gluier, ligure, reguli, and uglier — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligure. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gluer, gruel, guile, liger, and luger, 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 ligure produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, glue, lure, rule, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are girl, glue, grue, iglu, luge, and urge — 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 ligure turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie, rig, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gel, gie, gul, leg, lug, reg, rig, and rug — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligure. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gi, 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 ligure and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ligure 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.
ligure is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gluier, ligure, reguli, and uglier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligure 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 ligure produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.