Hidden inside lingular sit alluring and lingular, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alluring and lingular tie for the highest Scrabble score from lingular at 9 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lingular: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lingular itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alluring and lingular, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lingular produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligular, lingual, and lingula, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingular. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grill. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including grill, algin and align.
Rearranging the letters in lingular produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, girl and liar. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including gain, girl and lung.
Unscrambling lingular turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and gal. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including gal, gun and nag.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingular. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lingular plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lingular and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lingular is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
lingular is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingular unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alluring and lingular, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lingular 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 lingular produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.