Hidden inside legalism sit legalism, megillas, and millages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalism, megillas, and millages tie for the highest Scrabble score from legalism at 11 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in legalism: two come from rearranging its letters, and legalism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are legalism, megillas, and millages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legalism produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are megilla, milages, and millage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legalism turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails and images. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including images, ageism and gimels.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email and games. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including games, image and agism.
Rearranging the letters in legalism produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and gals. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including game, gams and gems.
Unscrambling legalism turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and all. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in legalism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legalism and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
legalism 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 legalism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
legalism is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are legalism, megillas, and millages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from legalism 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 legalism produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.