sortilege needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 400 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sortilege is the highest-scoring word from sortilege, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 400 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sortilege — and it is sortilege itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sortilege produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glories. For points, the strongest plays are elegist, elegits, glister, glories, goiters, goitres, goriest, gristle, logiest, and reglets — 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 sortilege turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greets, orgies, relies, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are egoist, egrets, elegit, ergots, gleets, goiter, goitre, greets, grilse, griots, legers, legist, legits, lieges, ligers, logier, oglers, orgies, regies, regilt, reglet, stogie, tigers, and trigos — 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sortilege. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls, greet, loser, riots, roles, steel, and steer. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, ergot, geest, gelts, geste, gilts, girls, giros, girts, gites, glees, gleet, glost, goers, goest, gores, gorse, grees, greet, griot, grist, grits, grots, leger, leges, legit, liege, liger, loges, ogees, ogler, ogles, ogres, reges, regie, serge, siege, tiger, trigo, trigs, and trogs — 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 sortilege produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lets, lies, list, logs, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are legs, loge, logs, ogee, ogle, ogre, orgs, regs, rigs, sego, slog, eger, egis, egos, ergo, ergs, gees, gels, gelt, gest, gets, gies, gilt, girl, giro, girt, gist, gite, gits, glee, goer, goes, gore, gree, grit, grot, tegs, togs, trig, and trog — 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 sortilege turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee, get, got, its, leg, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ego, erg, gee, gel, get, gie, gis, git, gor, gos, got, leg, log, org, reg, rig, seg, sig, teg, and tog — 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 sortilege. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is, it, or, so, and to. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sortilege plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sortilege 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.
sortilege 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.
sortilege is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sortilege unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sortilege, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sortilege 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 sortilege produce 400 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 18 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.