Hidden inside indigents sit destining and indigents, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
destining and indigents tie for the highest Scrabble score from indigents at 11 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in indigents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indigents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are destining and indigents, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigents. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dingiest, enditing, indigens, 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 indigents produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editing, endings, intends, sending, and tending. For points, the strongest plays are denting, dieting, dingies, dinings, dinting, editing, endings, ignited, indigen, nidgets, sending, tending, and tidings — 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 indigents turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, dining, ending, inside, intend, signed, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dieing, digest, digits, dinges, dining, ending, ginned, indign, nidget, niding, siding, signed, singed, 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines, edits, genii, nines, sting, and tends. For points, the strongest plays are deign, digit, dinge, and dings — 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 indigents produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, digs, dine, edit, ends, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, geds, gids, 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 indigents turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, get, ids, its, and net. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in indigents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indigents and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
indigents 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 indigents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
indigents is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indigents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are destining and indigents, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indigents 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 indigents produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.