lollygags needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lollygags is the highest-scoring word from lollygags, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lollygags — and it is lollygags itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lollygags produces exactly one eight-letter word: lollygag. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lollygags turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is slaggy, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lollygags. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goals and loyal. For points, the strongest plays are laggy, loggy, saggy, and soggy — 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 lollygags produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, gags, gals, goal, lays, logs, and soya. For points, the strongest plays are agly, gays, goys, logy, sagy, yags, 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 lollygags turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, gag, gal, gas, gay, and lay. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lollygags. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, go, oy, so, 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.
Swap a single tile in lollygags 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.
lollygags 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 lollygags. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
lollygags is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lollygags unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lollygags, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lollygags 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 lollygags produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.