Hidden inside maligners sit maligners and malingers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 734 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maligners and malingers tie for the highest Scrabble score from maligners at 12 points. The top 10 of 734 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in maligners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maligners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maligners and malingers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maligners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are germinal, gremials, gremlins and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maligners produces 66 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, manlier and mingles. For points, 26 words tie at 10 points, including mingles, armings and engrams.
Unscrambling maligners turns up 139 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels and angers. For points, 32 words tie at 9 points, including images, mingle and ageism.
There are 195 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maligners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with image, lamer and lanes. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including image, games and germs.
Rearranging the letters in maligners produces 191 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and airs. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and mage.
Unscrambling maligners turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maligners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in maligners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maligners 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.
maligners 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 maligners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
maligners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maligners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maligners and malingers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maligners 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 maligners produce 734 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 66 seven-letter words, 139 six-letter words, 195 five-letter words, 191 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.