Unscramble LIGULES and you have 85 words, LIGULES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 8 points: GULLIES. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of LIGULES at once for 58 in Scrabble (8 + 50) or 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LIGULES by length: 2 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 15 with 5, 30 with 4, 26 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of LIGULES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with LI · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What LIGULES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LIGULES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIGULES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 85) | 64 | 83 | 61 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 19 of them: GLEIS, GUSLE, GUSLI, GLEI, GUES, GULE, LIGS, GUE, GUS, LIG, SEIL, SILE and 7 more. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: GIS, SIG and GI. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: UGLIS and UGLI.
With one more tile, the letters of LIGULES spell the words below.