indigenous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 322 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indigenous is the highest-scoring word from indigenous, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 322 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in indigenous — and it is indigenous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indigenous turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is diosgenin, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigenous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dungeons and sounding. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including dungeons, sounding and indigens.
Rearranging the letters in indigenous produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dungeon, endings, sending, and undoing. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including dungeon, endings and sending.
Unscrambling indigenous turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, dining and ending. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including design, dining and ending.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigenous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, doing and genii. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including doing, guide and deign.
Rearranging the letters in indigenous produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs and dine. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including digs, dogs and gods.
Unscrambling indigenous turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and dug.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigenous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
indigenous 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 indigenous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
indigenous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indigenous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indigenous, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indigenous 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 indigenous produce 322 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.