Hidden inside ligands sit ladings and ligands, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ladings and ligands tie for the highest Scrabble score from ligands at 9 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ligands: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ligands itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ladings and ligands, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligands turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with island and signal. For points, the strongest plays are glands, lading, and ligand — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, gains, lands, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are algid, dangs, dings, gadis, gilds, glads, and gland — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ligands produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dial, digs, gain, gals, glad, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, gadi, gads, gids, gild, and glad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ligands turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, dig, gal, gas, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ligands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — 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 ligands 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.
ligands 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 ligands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ligands is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ligands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ladings and ligands, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ligands 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 ligands produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.