Hidden inside megilla sit megilla and millage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
megilla and millage tie for the highest Scrabble score from megilla at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in megilla: one comes from rearranging its letters, and megilla 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 megilla and millage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in megilla. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, image, and legal. For points, the strongest plays are gimel, gleam, glime, and image — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in megilla produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, lame and mail. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including game, glam and glim.
Unscrambling megilla turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and all. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in megilla plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in megilla 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.
megilla is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
megilla is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing megilla unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are megilla and millage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from megilla 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 megilla produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.