Hidden inside tegminal sit ligament, metaling, and tegminal, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ligament, metaling, and tegminal tie for the highest Scrabble score from tegminal at 11 points. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in tegminal: two come from rearranging its letters, and tegminal 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 ligament, metaling, and tegminal, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tegminal produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with melting. For points, the strongest plays are geminal, malting, melting, mintage, teaming, and tegmina — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tegminal turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, magnet, mental, and mingle. For points, the strongest plays are enigma, gamine, gimlet, laming, legman, lingam, magnet, malign, mangel, mangle, mating, meting, milage, mingle, and taming — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tegminal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, angel, angle, email, giant, and image. For points, the strongest plays are gamin, gimel, gleam, glime, image, and mange — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tegminal produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, gain, game, gate, item, lame, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are game, glam, glim, mage, magi, and mega — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tegminal turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ant, ate, eat, gal, and get. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tegminal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 tegminal 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.
tegminal 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.
tegminal is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tegminal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ligament, metaling, and tegminal, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tegminal 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 tegminal produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.