Hidden inside indigent sit enditing and indigent, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enditing and indigent tie for the highest Scrabble score from indigent at 10 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in indigent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indigent 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 enditing and indigent, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indigent produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editing and tending. For points, the strongest plays are denting, dieting, dinting, editing, ignited, indigen, and tending — 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 indigent turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining, ending, and intend. For points, the strongest plays are dieing, dining, ending, ginned, indign, nidget, niding, tiding, and tinged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest plays are deign, digit, and dinge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indigent produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine, edit, nine, tend, and tied. For points, the strongest plays are ding and gied — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indigent turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, get, net, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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 indigent 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.
indigent 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 one sense for indigent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
indigent is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indigent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enditing and indigent, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indigent 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 indigent produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.