Hidden inside signaller sit allergins and signaller, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 478 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allergins and signaller tie for the highest Scrabble score from signaller at 10 points. The top 10 of 478 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in signaller: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signaller 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 allergins and signaller, 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 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signaller. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aligners, allergin, engrails, galleins, langrels, lasering, nargiles, nigellas, 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 signaller produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, rallies, sealing, and selling. For points, the strongest plays are aligner, anglers, earings, engrail, erasing, gainers, gallein, gallies, gillers, glaires, grilles, langrel, leasing, linages, lingers, nargile, nigella, reagins, realign, regains, reginal, reginas, sealing, searing, selling, 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 signaller turns up 78 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angers, angles, easing, grills, and learns. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, angels, angers, angler, angles, argils, argles, earing, easing, gainer, genial, giller, glaire, glairs, glares, gleans, gnarls, grails, grains, grille, grills, grilse, ingles, lagers, larges, lasing, legals, 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 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signaller. 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, galls, garni, geans, gears, gills, girls, girns, glair, glans, glare, glean, glens, glial, glias, gnarl, gnars, grail, grain, grans, grill, grins, ingle, lager, large, legal, 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 signaller produces 132 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, gall, gals, gane, gars, gean, gear, gels, gens, gien, gies, gill, 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 signaller turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, all, are, 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 signaller. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in signaller plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signaller 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.
signaller 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 4-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 signaller. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
signaller is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signaller unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allergins and signaller, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signaller 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 signaller produce 478 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 78 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.