Hidden inside nilgais sit nilgais and sailing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nilgais and sailing tie for the highest Scrabble score from nilgais at 8 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nilgais: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nilgais itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailing. For points, the strongest plays are nilgais and sailing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nilgais turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signal. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, algins, aligns, isling, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, nilgai, and signal — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nilgais. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains and nails. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, gains, glans, glias, liang, ligan, linga, lings, sigil, sigla, signa, slang, and sling — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nilgais produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals, nags, nail, sail, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gals, gins, glia, lags, lang, ling, nags, sang, sign, sing, slag, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nilgais turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gas, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gal, gan, gas, gin, gis, lag, nag, sag, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nilgais. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 nilgais 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.
nilgais 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 3-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 nilgais. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
nilgais is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nilgais unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nilgais and sailing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nilgais 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 nilgais produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.