originals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 357 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
originals is the highest-scoring word from originals, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 357 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in originals — and it is originals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in originals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with original. For points, the strongest plays are ligroins, original, and railings — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in originals produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with origins, raising, and sailing. For points, the strongest plays are airings, arising, girasol, glorias, lairing, ligroin, nilgais, origans, origins, railing, raising, roiling, sailing, signior, signora, signori, siloing, soaring, and soiling — 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 originals turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, groins, losing, organs, origin, raisin, and rising. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, airing, algins, algors, aligns, anglos, argils, argols, argons, girons, glairs, gloria, gnarls, gorals, grails, grains, grison, groans, groins, isling, largos, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, lingos, logans, logins, losing, nilgai, oaring, oiling, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, origin, rasing, riling, rising, rosing, sarong, sigloi, signal, signor, siring, slogan, soling, and soring — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in originals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, gains, girls, goals, groin, irons, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are agios, agons, agros, algin, algor, align, along, anglo, argil, argol, argon, gains, gaols, garni, girls, girns, giron, giros, glair, glans, glias, gnarl, gnars, goals, gonia, goral, grail, grain, grans, grins, groan, groin, iring, largo, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, logan, logia, login, longs, orang, organ, ragis, rangs, rings, sargo, 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 originals produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, liar, lion, loan, logs, and long. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, agro, lags, lang, ling, logs, long, nags, nogs, orgs, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, sago, sang, sign, sing, slag, slog, snag, snog, song, gain, gals, gaol, gars, gins, girl, girn, giro, glia, gnar, goal, goas, gran, and grin — 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 originals turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, gal, gas, log, nag, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are ago, ags, gal, gan, gar, gas, gin, gis, goa, gor, gos, lag, log, nag, nog, org, rag, rig, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in originals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, go, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in originals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in originals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
originals 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 six senses for originals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
originals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing originals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is originals, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from originals 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 originals produce 357 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.