Unscramble NILGAIS to get 110 words. NILGAIS itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. NILGAIS has 2 anagrams here, AISLING and SAILING, scoring 8 like NILGAIS itself. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of NILGAIS at once for 58 in Scrabble (8 + 50) or 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NILGAIS split into 3 with 7 letters, 11 with 6, 19 with 5, 36 with 4, 29 with 3 and 12 with 2.
36 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NILGAIS; 20 of them share the top score of 5. SIGN, GAIN and SING are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NILGAIS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with NI · ending in IS · all 7-letter words
NILGAIS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NILGAIS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NILGAIS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 110) | 94 | 110 | 86 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 16 of them: AISLING, SILING, GILAS, GANS, GILA, INGS, LIGS, NGAI, SNIG, ING, ISNA, LIG and 4 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: SIGLA, SIGNA, AGS, GIS, LIAS, SIG, GI and SAN.
Each word below uses all the letters of NILGAIS and one more.