Hidden inside plagiarise sit plagiaries and plagiarise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 456 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plagiaries and plagiarise tie for the highest Scrabble score from plagiarise at 13 points. The top 10 of 456 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in plagiarise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and plagiarise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plagiaries and plagiarise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plagiarise. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is apiaries, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plagiarise produces 13 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 graples, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plagiarise turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grapes, praise, and serial. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including grapes, agapes and gapers.
There are 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plagiarise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, areas and girls. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including grape, grips and pages.
Rearranging the letters in plagiarise produces 141 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and apes. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including page, pigs and gaps.
Unscrambling plagiarise turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plagiarise. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in plagiarise plus one additional letter.
plagiarise 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 plagiarise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
plagiarise is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plagiarise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plagiaries and plagiarise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from plagiarise 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 plagiarise produce 456 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 141 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.