nigglingly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nigglingly is the highest-scoring word from nigglingly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in nigglingly — and it is nigglingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nigglingly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gillying, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nigglingly produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is inlying, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nigglingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lying. For points, the strongest plays are gilly, ginny, lingy, and lying — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nigglingly produces 9 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are illy, inly, lily and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
nigglingly 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nigglingly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nigglingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nigglingly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nigglingly 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 nigglingly produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.