Hidden inside indecent sit incented and indecent, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
incented and indecent tie for the highest Scrabble score from indecent at 11 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in indecent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indecent 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 incented and indecent, 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 indecent produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is enticed, 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 indecent turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decent and intend. For points, the strongest plays are deceit, decent, and edenic — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indecent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with niece. For points, the strongest plays are cited, deice, and edict — 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 indecent produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, dice, diet, dine, edit, need, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, dice, and iced — 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 indecent turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, net, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are cee, ice, tec, and tic — each worth 5 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 indecent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 indecent 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.
indecent 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 three senses for indecent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
indecent is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indecent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are incented and indecent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indecent 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 indecent produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.