plights needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plights is the highest-scoring word from plights, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in plights — and it is plights itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with light, sight, spilt, and split. For points, the strongest play is piths — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plights produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips, hits and lips. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hips, ship and phis.
Unscrambling plights turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his and hit. For points, the strongest plays are hip, phi, and pht — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plights. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in plights plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in plights 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.
plights 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for plights. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
plights is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plights unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plights, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plights 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 plights produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.