Hidden inside ullages sit seagull, sullage, and ullages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
seagull, sullage, and ullages tie for the highest Scrabble score from ullages at 8 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ullages: two come from rearranging its letters, and ullages 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 seagull, sullage, and ullages, 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 ullages turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gallus, legals, and ullage, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ullages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues and legal. For points, the strongest plays are aglus, agues, gales, galls, glues, gules, gulls, legal, luges, and usage — 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 ullages produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gals, glue, legs, sale, seal, and sell. For points, the strongest plays are ages, aglu, ague, egal, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gels, glue, gull, guls, lags, legs, luge, lugs, sage, slag, and slug — 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 ullages turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all, gal, gas, leg, sea, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gal, gas, gel, gul, lag, leg, lug, sag, and seg — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ullages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ullages 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.
ullages 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 4-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 ullages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ullages is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ullages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are seagull, sullage, and ullages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ullages 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 ullages produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.