Hidden inside genitival sit genitival and vigilante, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
genitival and vigilante tie for the highest Scrabble score from genitival at 13 points. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in genitival: one comes from rearranging its letters, and genitival itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genitival and vigilante, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitival. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ligative, valeting, and vigilant, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in genitival produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaving. For points, the strongest plays are eviting, leaving, vailing, vealing, veiling, vialing, and vintage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling genitival turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, invite, living, and native. For points, the strongest plays are glaive, laving, living, and vagile — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitival. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, alive, angel, angle, genii, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, vegan, vigia, and vigil — 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 genitival produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, gain, gate, gave, give, lane, and late. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, and viga — 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 genitival turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gal, get, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitival. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in genitival plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in genitival 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.
genitival 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
genitival is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing genitival unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are genitival and vigilante, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from genitival 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 genitival produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.