Hidden inside lingoes sit eloigns, legions, lingoes and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eloigns, legions, lingoes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lingoes at 8 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in lingoes: three come from rearranging its letters, and lingoes 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 eloigns, legions, lingoes, and longies, 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 lingoes turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing and single. For points, the strongest plays are eloign, ingles, legion, lingos, logins, longes, losing, single, soigne, and soling — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are glens, ingle, lingo, lings, loges, login, longe, longs, ogles, segni, segno, sengi, singe, 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 lingoes produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gone, legs, lies, line, and lion. For points, the strongest plays are egis, egos, engs, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, goes, gone, legs, ling, loge, logs, long, negs, nogs, ogle, sego, sign, sing, slog, snog, and song — 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 lingoes turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, leg, lie, log, oil, one, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, gos, leg, log, neg, nog, 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 lingoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each 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 lingoes 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.
lingoes 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 one sense for lingoes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lingoes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eloigns, legions, lingoes, and longies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lingoes 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 lingoes produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.