Hidden inside maligns sit lingams and maligns, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingams and maligns tie for the highest Scrabble score from maligns at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in maligns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maligns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lingams and maligns, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maligns turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signal. For points, the strongest plays are gamins, laming, lingam, and malign — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maligns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, mails, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamin, glams, glims, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maligns produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain, gals, mail, main, nags, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are gams, glam, glim, magi, mags, and migs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maligns turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, gal, gas, man, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maligns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 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 maligns and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
maligns 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 three senses for maligns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
maligns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maligns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lingams and maligns, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maligns 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 maligns produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.