Hidden inside ingests sit ingests, signets, and stinges, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ingests, signets, and stinges tie for the highest Scrabble score from ingests at 8 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ingests: two come from rearranging its letters, and ingests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ingests, signets, and stinges, 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 ingests turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stings. For points, the strongest plays are gneiss, ingest, signet, singes, stinge, stings, and tinges — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, signs, sings, sites, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are gents, gests, gists, gites, segni, sengi, signs, singe, sings, sting, tinge, and tings — 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 ingests produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, nest, nets, sent, sets, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gite, gits, negs, segs, sign, sigs, sing, tegs, 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 ingests turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, net, set, sin, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, neg, seg, sig, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 ingests and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ingests 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for ingests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ingests is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ingests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ingests, signets, and stinges, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ingests 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 ingests produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.