Hidden inside gentiles sit gentiles, sleeting, and steeling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gentiles, sleeting, and steeling tie for the highest Scrabble score from gentiles at 9 points. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in gentiles: two come from rearranging its letters, and gentiles 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 gentiles, sleeting, and steeling, 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 gentiles produces 14 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 eelings, elegist, elegits, gentile, gentles, glisten, seeling, singlet, sniglet, and tingles, 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 gentiles turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gentle, listen, seeing, silent, and single. For points, the strongest plays are eeling, elegit, genets, genies, gentes, gentil, gentle, gleets, glints, ingest, ingles, legist, legits, lieges, seeing, signee, signet, single, stinge, teeing, tenges, tinges, 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, lines, steel, sting, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are egest, geest, gelts, genes, genet, genie, gents, geste, gilts, gites, glees, gleet, glens, glint, ingle, leges, legit, liege, lings, segni, sengi, siege, singe, sling, sting, tenge, 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 gentiles produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene, gets, legs, lent, lets, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gees, gels, gelt, gene, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glee, glen, legs, ling, negs, sign, sing, 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 gentiles turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, its, leg, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gee, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, leg, neg, seg, sig, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gentiles. 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.
Swap a single tile in gentiles 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.
gentiles 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 five senses for gentiles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gentiles is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gentiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gentiles, sleeting, and steeling, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gentiles 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 gentiles produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.