65 words come out when you unscramble NILGAU, starting with NILGAU itself: 7 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 7 points: LINGUA. The best shorter words score 6: 7 of them, ALIGN, ALGIN and LIANG included. The 6 letters split into 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NILGAU split into 2 with 6 letters, 8 with 5, 21 with 4, 21 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Trade one tile of NILGAU for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with NI · ending in U · all 6-letter words
What NILGAU means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. NILGAU is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NILGAU itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 65) | 53 | 64 | 48 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 11 of them: UGALI, GILA, GULA, INULA, NGAI, GAU, ING, LIG, ALU, GU and UG. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: AGLU, NUG, GI, LUN and UNI. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: UGLI.
With one more tile, the letters of NILGAU spell the words below.