Hidden inside ignoramus sit ignoramus and origanums, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 447 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ignoramus and origanums tie for the highest Scrabble score from ignoramus at 12 points. The top 10 of 447 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ignoramus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ignoramus 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 ignoramus and origanums, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ignoramus. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gouramis, organism, organums, origanum, and roamings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ignoramus produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amusing. For points, the strongest plays are agonism, amusing, armings, gourami, isogram, margins, morgans, mousing, organum, and roaming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ignoramus turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, organs, and orgasm. For points, the strongest plays are amigos, arming, gamins, gonium, granum, imagos, mangos, margin, morgan, mungos, muring, musing, ogrism, and orgasm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ignoramus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, gains, groin, irons, minor, minus, and organ. For points, the strongest plays are agism, amigo, among, gamin, gaums, gismo, gorms, grams, imago, magus, mango, margs, mungo, mungs, ogams, sagum, sigma, and smorg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ignoramus produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, anus, arms, main, mugs, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are magi, mags, marg, migs, mogs, mugs, mung, ogam, smog, smug, gams, gaum, gorm, gram, grim, grum, and gums — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ignoramus turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim, air, arm, gas, gum, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gum, mag, mig, mog, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ignoramus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, go, in, is, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ignoramus plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ignoramus 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.
ignoramus 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for ignoramus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ignoramus is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ignoramus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ignoramus and origanums, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ignoramus 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 ignoramus produce 447 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.