Hidden inside gentians sit antigens and gentians, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antigens and gentians tie for the highest Scrabble score from gentians at 9 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gentians: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gentians 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 antigens and gentians, 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 gentians produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seating and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are anteing, antigen, antings, easting, eatings, gannets, genista, gentian, ingates, ingesta, innages, nesting, seating, staning, tagines, teasing, and tensing — 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 gentians turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing, eating, giants, insane, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, anting, easing, eating, ensign, gainst, gannet, giants, ingate, ingest, innage, saning, sating, signet, stinge, tagine, tasing, and tinges — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains, gates, giant, nines, saint, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agist, angst, gains, gaits, gates, geans, gents, getas, giant, gites, gnats, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, tinge, and tings — 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 gentians produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, gain, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gite, gits, gnat, nags, negs, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, and ting — 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 gentians turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gas, get, and its. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, nag, neg, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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.
Swap a single tile in gentians 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.
gentians 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 gentians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gentians is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gentians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antigens and gentians, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gentians 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 gentians produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.