tillage needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tillage is the highest-scoring word from tillage, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tillage — and it is tillage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tillage turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aiglet, gallet, gelati, and ligate, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tillage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legal. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including legal, agile and aglet.
Rearranging the letters in tillage produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, late and tail. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including gate, egal and gait.
Unscrambling tillage turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ate. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and get.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tillage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tillage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tillage 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.
tillage 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for tillage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tillage is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tillage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tillage, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tillage 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 tillage produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.