Hidden inside agenesis sit agenesis and assignee, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agenesis and assignee tie for the highest Scrabble score from agenesis at 9 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in agenesis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and agenesis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agenesis and assignee, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in agenesis produces 5 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 aegises, genesis, seeings, senegas, and signees, 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 agenesis turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign, easing, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, assign, easing, egises, genies, gneiss, seeing, senega, sieges, signee, and singes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agenesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, gains, gases, genes, sense, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agene, gains, gases, geans, genes, genie, sages, segni, sengi, siege, signa, signs, singe, sings, and snags — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in agenesis produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, gain, gene, nags, sane, and sang. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ages, agin, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gean, gees, gene, gens, gien, gies, gins, nags, negs, sage, sags, sang, segs, sign, sigs, sing, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling agenesis turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, gas, gee, nag, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gan, gas, gee, gen, gie, gin, gis, nag, neg, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agenesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 agenesis 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.
agenesis 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 2-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 agenesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
agenesis is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agenesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agenesis and assignee, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agenesis 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 agenesis produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.