indulgence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indulgence is the highest-scoring word from indulgence, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in indulgence — and it is indulgence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulgence. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are euglenid and needling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indulgence produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with include, lending, and needing. For points, the strongest plays are clinged, deucing, and educing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indulgence turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending, engine, and legend. For points, the strongest plays are ceding and cudgel — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulgence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guide, lined, niece, and uncle. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including cling, clued and clung.
Rearranging the letters in indulgence produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, deli and dice. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dice, cede and cedi.
Unscrambling indulgence turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulgence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in indulgence plus one additional letter.
indulgence 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for indulgence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
indulgence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indulgence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indulgence, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indulgence 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 indulgence produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.