litigates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
litigates is the highest-scoring word from litigates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in litigates — and it is litigates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling litigates produces exactly one eight-letter word: litigate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in litigates produces 6 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 aiglets, gelatis, gestalt, and ligates, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling litigates turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latest, lattes, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, aglets, aiglet, atigis, gaslit, gelati, legist, legits, ligase, ligate, and silage — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates, latte, least, stage, state, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, agist, aglet, atigi, gaits, gales, gates, gelts, getas, gilts, gites, glias, legit, sigil, sigla, stage, and staig — 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 litigates produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east, eats, gals, gate, gets, and last. For points, the strongest plays are ages, egal, egis, gaes, gait, gale, gals, gast, gate, gats, gels, gelt, gest, geta, gets, gies, gilt, gist, gite, gits, glia, lags, legs, sage, slag, stag, tags, and tegs — 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 litigates turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gal, gas, get, and its. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gat, gel, get, gie, gis, git, lag, leg, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litigates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. 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 litigates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
litigates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for litigates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
litigates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litigates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is litigates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from litigates 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 litigates produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.