Hidden inside linkages sit linkages and snaglike, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
linkages and snaglike tie for the highest Scrabble score from linkages at 13 points. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in linkages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and linkages 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 linkages and snaglike, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in linkages produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sealing. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including lakings, leaking and linkage.
Unscrambling linkages turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels and angles. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including asking, gaskin and kiangs.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and alike. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including kings, eking and ganks.
Rearranging the letters in linkages produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gain and gals. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including king, gank and gink.
Unscrambling linkages turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ask and gal. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in linkages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in linkages 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.
linkages 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 linkages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
linkages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linkages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are linkages and snaglike, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linkages 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 linkages produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.