Hidden inside signaler sit aligners, engrails, lasering and 4 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 426 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aligners, engrails, lasering and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from signaler at 9 points. The top 10 of 426 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 eight-letter words hiding in signaler: six come from rearranging its letters, and signaler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aligners, engrails, lasering, nargiles, realigns, signaler, and slangier, 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 signaler produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are aligner, anglers, earings, engrail, erasing, gainers, glaires, leasing, linages, lingers, nargile, reagins, realign, regains, reginal, reginas, sealing, searing, seringa, and slinger — 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 signaler turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angers, angles, easing, learns, and ranges. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, angels, angers, angler, angles, argils, argles, earing, easing, gainer, genial, glaire, glairs, glares, gleans, gnarls, grails, grains, grilse, ingles, lagers, larges, lasing, liangs, ligans, ligase, ligers, linage, lingas, linger, ranges, rasing, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, reigns, renigs, resign, sagier, sanger, sering, signal, signer, silage, singer, and single — 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 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signaler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, anger, angle, earns, and gains. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, agile, algin, align, angel, anger, angle, argil, argle, gains, gales, garni, geans, gears, girls, girns, glair, glans, glare, glean, glens, glias, gnarl, gnars, grail, grain, grans, grins, ingle, lager, large, liang, ligan, liger, linga, lings, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regal, regna, reign, renig, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, 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 signaler produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lean, legs, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, egal, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gale, gals, gane, gars, gean, gear, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, girl, girn, glen, glia, gnar, 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 signaler turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gas, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signaler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
38 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in signaler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signaler and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
signaler 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 signaler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
signaler is one of seven eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signaler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aligners, engrails, lasering, nargiles, realigns, signaler, and slangier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signaler 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 signaler produce 426 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.