99 words come out when you unscramble ALIGNS, starting with ALIGNS itself: 7 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. ALIGNS has 6 anagrams here, ALGINS, LASING, LIANGS, LIGANS, LINGAS and SIGNAL, scoring 7 like ALIGNS itself. The best shorter words score 6: 14 of them, GAINS, ALIGN and SLANG included. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ALIGNS split into 7 with 6 letters, 18 with 5, 33 with 4, 29 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALIGNS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with AL · ending in NS · all 6-letter words
What ALIGNS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ALIGNS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIGNS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 99) | 85 | 99 | 77 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
14 of the 99 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GILAS, GANS, GILA, INGS, LIGS, NGAI, SNIG, ING, ISNA, LIG, ANS, NAS and 2 more. 8 of the 99 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SIGLA, SIGNA, AGS, GIS, LIAS, SIG, GI and SAN.
With one more tile, the letters of ALIGNS spell the words below.