abnegator 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, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abnegator is the highest-scoring word from abnegator, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in abnegator — and it is abnegator itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegator. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abrogate and baronage, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abnegator produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is begroan, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abnegator turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orange. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including banger, barong and bogart.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, agent and anger. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including began, barge and begat.
Rearranging the letters in abnegator produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bang and bare. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including bang, brag and grab.
Unscrambling abnegator turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bag, beg and bog.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abnegator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in abnegator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abnegator 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.
abnegator 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 one sense for abnegator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
abnegator is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abnegator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abnegator, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abnegator 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 abnegator produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.