Hidden inside ingate sit eating, ingate, and tagine, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eating, ingate, and tagine tie for the highest Scrabble score from ingate at 7 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in ingate: two come from rearranging its letters, and ingate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating. For points, the strongest plays are eating, ingate, and tagine — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent and giant. For points, the strongest plays are agent, giant, 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 ingate produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gean, gent, geta, gien, gite, gnat, 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 ingate turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, get, nag, and net. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, gae, gan, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingate. 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.
30 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ingate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ingate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ingate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ingate is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ingate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eating, ingate, and tagine, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ingate 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 ingate produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.