Unscramble LINGUIST and you have 169 words, LINGUIST itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 8: 8 of them, LISTING, SUITING and LUSTING included. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for insultig, ingutils or singulit? They use the same letters as LINGUIST, so the words on this page are their answers too.
L12I1N12G23U12I1S1T1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from LINGUIST split into 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 16 with 6, 32 with 5, 58 with 4, 40 with 3 and 14 with 2.
32 5-letter words from LINGUIST; 21 of them share the top score of 6. USING, UNITS and GUILT are everyday picks.
Of the 58 4-letter words you get when you unscramble LINGUIST, 29 score 5 points, the group's best. LIST, SIGN and UNIT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LINGUIST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with LI · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
LINGUIST first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LINGUIST, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINGUIST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 134 | 167 | 124 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SINGULT, STILING, LITING, NISGUL, SILING, UNGILT, GIUST, GLITS, GUSLI, ULITIS, GLIT, INGS and 21 more, 33 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: NUGS, TULSI, GIS, LUNS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI, LUN and UNI, 10 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLIS and UGLI, 2 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of LINGUIST and one more.