abnegates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abnegates is the highest-scoring word from abnegates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in abnegates — and it is abnegates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abnegates produces exactly one eight-letter word: abnegate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abnegates produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agnates and negates, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abnegates turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents and beaten. For points, the strongest plays are begets and seabag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, bangs, beans, beast, beats, began, and eaten. For points, the strongest plays are bangs, 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 abnegates produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, bags, bang, bans, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are bags, bang, begs, and gabs — each 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 abnegates turns up 62 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, 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 abnegates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
abnegates 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 abnegates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
abnegates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abnegates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abnegates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abnegates 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 abnegates produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.