Hidden inside genitives sit genitives and ingestive, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
genitives and ingestive tie for the highest Scrabble score from genitives at 13 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in genitives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and genitives 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 genitives and ingestive, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitives. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genitive and steeving, 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 genitives produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites. For points, the strongest plays are eviting, sieving, vestige, vesting, and viseing — 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 genitives turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with events, invest, invite, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are givens, vegies, venges, and vising — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with event, genes, genii, given, gives, seven, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are given, gives, veges, vegie, and venge — 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 genitives produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, eves, gene, gets, give, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are give and vigs — 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 genitives turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, get, its, net, see, and set. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in genitives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in genitives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in genitives 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.
genitives 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 two senses for genitives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
genitives is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing genitives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are genitives and ingestive, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from genitives 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 genitives produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.