lollygag needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lollygag is the highest-scoring word from lollygag, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lollygag — and it is lollygag itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lollygag. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loyal. For points, the strongest plays are laggy and loggy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lollygag produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goal and yoga. For points, the strongest plays are agly, logy, and yoga — 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 lollygag turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, gag, gal, gay, lay, and log. For points, the strongest plays are gay, goy, and yag — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lollygag. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay, go, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lollygag plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lollygag 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.
lollygag 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 4-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 lollygag. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lollygag is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lollygag unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lollygag, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lollygag 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 lollygag produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.