malingerer needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 460 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malingerer is the highest-scoring word from malingerer, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 460 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in malingerer — and it is malingerer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling malingerer produces exactly one nine-letter word: greenmail. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malingerer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are germinal, germline, gleamier, liegeman, maligner, malinger, and rearming, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in malingerer produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earlier, earring, general, and manlier. For points, the strongest plays are armiger, geminal, germane, germier, germina, gleamer, gleeman, gremial, gremlin, mangier, mangler, marling, marring, meagrer, melange, mileage, mingler, reaming, regimen, and reimage — 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 malingerer turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with larger, meaner, mingle, nearer, and remain. For points, the strongest plays are arming, emigre, engram, enigma, gamier, gamine, german, germen, imager, laming, legman, legmen, lingam, maigre, malgre, malign, manege, mangel, manger, mangle, margin, meager, meagre, menage, merger, milage, mingle, mirage, ragmen, and regime — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malingerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, alien, angel, anger, angle, email, and green. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, gamer, gamin, gimel, gleam, glime, grime, image, mange, marge, merge, and regma — 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 malingerer produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, lame, lane, lean, liar, line, and mail. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, marg, mega, game, germ, glam, glim, gram, and grim — 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 malingerer turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malingerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in malingerer plus one additional letter.
malingerer 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 malingerer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
malingerer is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malingerer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is malingerer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from malingerer 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 malingerer produce 460 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.