Hidden inside lingua sit lingua and nilgau, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingua and nilgau tie for the highest Scrabble score from lingua at 7 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lingua: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lingua itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lingua and nilgau, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingua. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algin, align, liang, ligan, linga, and lungi, 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 lingua produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lung, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are agin, aglu, gain, gaun, glia, guan, iglu, lang, ling, and lung — 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 lingua turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gun, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lag, lug, nag, and nug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingua. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. 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.
Swap a single tile in lingua 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.
lingua 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for lingua. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
lingua is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingua unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lingua and nilgau, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lingua 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 lingua produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.