Hidden inside pillagers sit aspergill and pillagers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 428 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspergill and pillagers tie for the highest Scrabble score from pillagers at 12 points. The top 10 of 428 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pillagers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pillagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspergill and pillagers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillagers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pillager, pillages, and spillage, 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 pillagers produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rallies. For points, the strongest plays are graples and pillage — 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 pillagers turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grapes, grills, praise, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are gapers, gasper, grapes, graple, gripes, pagers, parges, plages, and sparge — 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 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, girls, grape, grill, grips, large, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are gaper, gapes, grape, grasp, gripe, grips, pager, pages, parge, peags, plage, prigs, sprag, and sprig — 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 pillagers produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, apes, laps, leap, legs, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are page, peag, pegs, pigs, prig, gape, gaps, gasp, gips, and grip — 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 pillagers turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, all, ape, are, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pillagers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pillagers 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.
pillagers 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 pillagers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pillagers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pillagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspergill and pillagers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pillagers 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 pillagers produce 428 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.