Hidden inside signalers sit glariness, grainless, and signalers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 537 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glariness, grainless, and signalers tie for the highest Scrabble score from signalers at 10 points. The top 10 of 537 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in signalers: two come from rearranging its letters, and signalers 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 glariness, grainless, and signalers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signalers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aligners, assigner, engrails, gainless, glassier, glassine, lasering, leasings, nargiles, rassling, realigns, reassign, ringless, sealings, seringas, signaler, slangier, and slingers, 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 signalers produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, sealing, signals, singers, and singles. For points, the strongest plays are aligner, anglers, earings, engrail, erasing, gainers, gassier, glaires, glassie, grilses, ingress, largess, leasing, ligases, linages, lingers, nargile, reagins, realign, regains, reginal, reginas, resigns, sangers, sealing, searing, seringa, signals, signers, silages, singers, singles, 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 signalers turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, aliens, angels, angers, angles, assign, and easing. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, angels, angers, angler, angles, argils, argles, assign, earing, easing, gainer, gasser, genial, glaire, glairs, glares, gleans, glisse, gnarls, gneiss, 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, sarges, sering, signal, signer, silage, singer, singes, single, slangs, and slings — 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 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signalers. 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, gases, geans, gears, girls, girns, glair, glans, glare, glass, glean, glens, glias, gnarl, gnars, grail, grain, grans, grass, grins, ingle, lager, large, liang, ligan, liger, linga, lings, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regal, regna, reign, renig, rings, sager, sages, sarge, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, signs, singe, sings, slags, slang, sling, and snags — 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 signalers produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lean, legs, less, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sags, sang, segs, sign, sigs, 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 signalers turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ass, ear, era, and gal. 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 signalers. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in signalers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signalers 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.
signalers 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 signalers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
signalers is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signalers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glariness, grainless, and signalers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signalers 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 signalers produce 537 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.