Hidden inside linkage sit leaking and linkage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leaking and linkage tie for the highest Scrabble score from linkage at 12 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in linkage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and linkage 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 leaking and linkage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alike and angel. For points, the strongest plays are eking, kiang, and klieg — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in linkage produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, king and lake. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling linkage turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal and ink. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in linkage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in linkage 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.
linkage 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 four senses for linkage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
linkage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linkage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leaking and linkage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linkage 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 linkage produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.