Hidden inside inelegant sit eglantine and inelegant, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eglantine and inelegant tie for the highest Scrabble score from inelegant at 10 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in inelegant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inelegant 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 eglantine and inelegant, each worth 10 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 inelegant. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antigene, entangle, galenite, gantline, gelatine, latening, and legatine, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inelegant produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elegant and leaning. For points, the strongest plays are aneling, anteing, antigen, atingle, eanling, egalite, elating, elegant, gelatin, genital, gentian, gentile, leaning, lineage, and tagline — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inelegant turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, engine, and gentle. For points, the strongest plays are aiglet, anting, eaglet, eating, eeling, elegit, engine, gannet, gelant, gelate, gelati, genial, gentil, gentle, ingate, innage, legate, ligate, lignan, linage, negate, tagine, tangle, teeing, telega, and tingle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inelegant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien, angel, angle, eaten, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agile, aglee, aglet, algin, align, angel, angle, eagle, genet, genie, giant, glean, gleet, glint, ingle, legit, liang, liege, ligan, linga, tenge, and tinge — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inelegant produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate, gene, lane, late, lean, and lent. For points, the strongest plays are agee, agin, egal, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gean, gelt, gene, gent, geta, gien, gilt, gite, glee, glen, glia, gnat, lang, ling, tang, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inelegant turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gal, gee, and get. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, gae, gal, gan, gat, gee, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, lag, leg, nag, neg, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inelegant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in inelegant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inelegant 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.
inelegant 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 inelegant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
inelegant is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inelegant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eglantine and inelegant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inelegant 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 inelegant produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.