Hidden inside signalment sit alignments and signalment, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 814 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alignments and signalment tie for the highest Scrabble score from signalment at 13 points. The top 10 of 814 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in signalment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signalment itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alignments and signalment, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling signalment turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alignment, lamenting, ligaments and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signalment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals, manliest and meanings. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including meanings, steaming and ligament.
Rearranging the letters in signalment produces 93 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, leaning and magnets. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including magnets, meaning and melting.
Unscrambling signalment turns up 147 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens and angels. For points, 26 words tie at 9 points, including images, magnet and mingle.
There are 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signalment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with image, items and lanes. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including image, games and mages.
Rearranging the letters in signalment produces 213 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and amen. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including game, mage and magi.
Unscrambling signalment turns up 105 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signalment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in signalment plus one additional letter.
signalment 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
signalment is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signalment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alignments and signalment, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signalment 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 signalment produce 814 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 31 eight-letter words, 93 seven-letter words, 147 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 213 four-letter words, 105 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.