Hidden inside gentil sit gentil and tingle, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gentil and tingle tie for the highest Scrabble score from gentil at 7 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in gentil: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gentil itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gentil and tingle, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentil. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glint, ingle, legit, and tinge, 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 gentil produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent and line. For points, the strongest plays are gelt, gent, gien, gilt, gite, glen, ling, 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 gentil turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, leg, let, lie, lit, net, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, neg, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in 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.
28 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gentil plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gentil and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gentil 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.
gentil is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gentil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gentil and tingle, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gentil 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 gentil produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.