Hidden inside linages sit leasing, linages, and sealing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leasing, linages, and sealing tie for the highest Scrabble score from linages at 8 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in linages: two come from rearranging its letters, and linages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sealing. For points, the strongest plays are leasing, linages, and sealing — 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 linages turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angles, easing, signal, and single. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, angels, angles, easing, genial, gleans, ingles, lasing, liangs, ligans, ligase, linage, lingas, signal, silage, and single — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, angle, gains, lanes, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, algin, align, angel, angle, gains, gales, geans, glans, glean, glens, glias, ingle, liang, ligan, linga, lings, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, slang, and sling — 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 linages produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gain, gals, lane, lean, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, egal, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gale, gals, gane, gean, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, glia, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, and snag — 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 linages turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, gas, leg, lie, nag, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, lag, leg, nag, neg, sag, seg, and sig — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. 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.
40 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in linages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in linages 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.
linages 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 two senses for linages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
linages is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leasing, linages, and sealing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linages 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 linages produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.