indicative needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indicative is the highest-scoring word from indicative, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in indicative — and it is indicative itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indicative turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vindicate, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with indicate. For points, the strongest plays are cavitied and vaticide — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indicative produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invited. For points, the strongest play is venatic — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indicative turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active, advice, invade, invite, and native. For points, the strongest plays are advect and advice — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, dance, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are caved and viced — 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 indicative produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, cave, cent, date, dice, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indicative turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, and, ant, ate, can, and cat. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indicative. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in indicative plus one additional letter.
indicative 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 indicative. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
indicative is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indicative unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indicative, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indicative 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 indicative produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.