Unscramble ILLEGALS and you have 121 words, ILLEGALS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, ILLEGAL, GALLIES and GALLISE lead with 8 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ILLEGALS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 5 with 6, 21 with 5, 44 with 4, 34 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Among 44 4-letter words from ILLEGALS, the top score is 5, reached by 19. SALE, SELL and AGES are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of ILLEGALS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with IL · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
ILLEGALS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ILLEGALS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILLEGALS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 121) | 99 | 121 | 93 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GALLISE, ALLELS, GEALS, GILAS, GLEIS, ALLEL, ALLIS, GEAL, GILA, GLEI, LIGS, LILLS and 10 more, 22 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SIGLA, AGS, GIS, LIAS, SIG and GI, 6 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ILLEGALS and one more.