litigant needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
litigant is the highest-scoring word from litigant, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in litigant — and it is litigant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in litigant produces 4 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 intagli, tailing, tilting, and titling, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling litigant turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailing, atting, gittin and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litigant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including giant, algin and align.
Rearranging the letters in litigant produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, nail, and tail. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including gain, agin and gait.
Unscrambling litigant turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gal and lit. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including gal, nag and tag.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litigant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in litigant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in litigant 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.
litigant 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 litigant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
litigant is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litigant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is litigant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from litigant 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 litigant produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.