Hidden inside lingual sit lingual and lingula, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingual and lingula tie for the highest Scrabble score from lingual at 8 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lingual: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lingual 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 lingual and lingula, 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 lingual 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 ligula, lingua, and nilgau, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingual. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algin, align, glial, liang, ligan, linga, and lungi, 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 lingual produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lung, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are agin, aglu, gain, gall, gaun, gill, glia, guan, gull, iglu, lang, ling, and lung — 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 lingual turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, gal, gun, ill, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gin, gnu, gul, gun, lag, lug, nag, and nug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingual. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each 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 lingual 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.
lingual 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for lingual. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lingual is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingual unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lingual and lingula, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lingual 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 lingual produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.