93 words come out when you unscramble NYLGHAI, starting with NYLGHAI itself: 14 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are HAYING and NIGHLY, 13 points each. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of NYLGHAI at once for 64 in Scrabble (14 + 50) or 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
Looking for halying? They use the same letters as NYLGHAI, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from NYLGHAI by length: 1 with 7 letters, 7 with 6, 16 with 5, 27 with 4, 27 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Trade one tile of NYLGHAI for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with NY · ending in AI · all 7-letter words
What NYLGHAI means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NYLGHAI, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYLGHAI itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 93) | 79 | 93 | 70 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 14 of them: NIGHLY, HAILY, ANIGH, HANGI, GYAL, GYAN, HING, HAIN, HAN, GILA, NGAI, NY and 2 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: LINHAY, HIYA, NYAH, AHING, LAYIN, YAG, AHI, LAH and GI.
With one more tile, the letters of NYLGHAI spell the words below.