Hidden inside signories sit seigniors and signories, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
seigniors and signories tie for the highest Scrabble score from signories at 10 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in signories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signories 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 seigniors and signories, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signories. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goriness, seignior, and signiors, 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 signories produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores, ironies, origins, regions, seniors, and singers. For points, the strongest plays are engross, eringos, grisons, ignores, ingress, origins, regions, resigns, risings, seising, signers, signior, signore, signori, signors, singers, and sorings — 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 signories turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore, noises, orgies, origin, region, and rising. For points, the strongest plays are eringo, genros, girons, gneiss, gnoses, gnosis, goners, gorses, grison, groins, ignore, ogress, orgies, origin, region, reigns, renigs, resign, rising, rosing, segnos, sering, signer, signor, singer, singes, siring, soigne, and soring — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, groin, gross, irons, noise, noses, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are genii, genro, gesso, girns, giron, giros, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grins, groin, gross, iring, ogres, reign, renig, rings, segni, segno, segos, sengi, signs, singe, sings, snogs, and songs — 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 signories produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gone, iron, nose, ones, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are egis, egos, engs, ergo, ergs, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, giro, goer, goes, gone, gore, grin, negs, nogs, ogre, orgs, regs, rigs, ring, sego, segs, sign, sigs, sing, snog, and song — 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 signories turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, nor, one, rig, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, erg, gen, gie, gin, gis, gor, gos, neg, nog, org, reg, rig, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in signories plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signories 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.
signories 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 2-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 signories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
signories is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are seigniors and signories, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signories 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 signories produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.