abnegate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abnegate is the highest-scoring word from abnegate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in abnegate — and it is abnegate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abnegate turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: beaten, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, began, and eaten. For points, the strongest plays are began, begat, and beget — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abnegate produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bang, bean, beat, been, bent, gate, and gene. For points, the strongest play is bang — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abnegate turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, bag, ban, bat, and bee. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, and gab — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in abnegate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
abnegate is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for abnegate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
abnegate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abnegate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abnegate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abnegate earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in abnegate produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.