Hidden inside tallage sit gallate, galleta, and tallage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gallate, galleta, and tallage tie for the highest Scrabble score from tallage at 8 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tallage: two come from rearranging its letters, and tallage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gallate, galleta, and tallage, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tallage produces exactly one six-letter word: gallet. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legal. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including legal, agate and aglet.
Rearranging the letters in tallage produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, late and tale. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including gate, alga and egal.
Unscrambling tallage turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and get.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tallage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tallage and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tallage 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.
tallage is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tallage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gallate, galleta, and tallage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tallage 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 tallage produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.