Hidden inside ignores sit eringos, ignores, regions and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eringos, ignores, regions and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ignores at 8 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in ignores: three come from rearranging its letters, and ignores itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores and regions. For points, the strongest plays are eringos, ignores, regions, and signore — 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 ignores turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore, orgies, region, senior, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are eringo, genros, girons, goners, grison, groins, ignore, orgies, region, reigns, renigs, resign, rosing, sering, signer, signor, singer, soigne, and soring — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ignores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons, noise, rings, risen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are genro, girns, giron, giros, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grins, groin, ogres, reign, renig, rings, segni, segno, sengi, and singe — 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 ignores produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gone, iron, nose, ones, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are egis, egos, engs, ergo, ergs, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, giro, goer, goes, gone, gore, grin, negs, nogs, ogre, orgs, regs, rigs, ring, sego, sign, sing, snog, and song — 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 ignores turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, nor, one, rig, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, erg, gen, gie, gin, gis, gor, gos, neg, nog, org, reg, rig, seg, and sig — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ignores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — 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 ignores and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ignores 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 2-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 ignores. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ignores is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ignores unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eringos, ignores, regions, and signore, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ignores 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 ignores produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.