Hidden inside ingredients sit ingredients and tenderising, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 719 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ingredients and tenderising tie for the highest Scrabble score from ingredients at 13 points. The top 10 of 719 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in ingredients: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ingredients itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ingredients. For points, the strongest plays are ingredients and tenderising — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ingredients produces 2 valid ten-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ingredient, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ingredients turns up 18 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resenting. For points, the strongest plays are deserting, destining, indigenes, indigents, niderings, reediting, reignited, resending, and tendering — 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 56 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingredients. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer, entering, intenser, nineties, resident, and steering. For points, the strongest plays are designer, desiring, digester, dingiest, enditing, energids, indigene, indigens, indigent, ingested, nidering, redesign, redigest, reedings, residing, resigned, ridgiest, rigidest, ringside, signeted, striding, stringed, and trending — 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 ingredients produces 97 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinners, editing, endings, engines, entries, genders, and intends. For points, the strongest plays are denting, dieting, dingers, dingier, dingies, dinings, dinting, dreeing, edgiest, editing, endings, energid, engined, engirds, genders, grinned, ignited, indigen, needing, nidgets, reeding, reigned, rending, ridings, rinding, sedgier, seeding, 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 ingredients turns up 174 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, design, desire, diners, dining, and dinner. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dieing, digest, digits, dinger, dinges, dining, dirges, edgers, edgier, ending, engird, gender, genned, ginned, girned, girted, greeds, grides, grinds, indign, nidget, niding, reding, ridges, riding, ringed, serged, siding, sieged, 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 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingredients. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, diner, dines, dries, edges, and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deign, digit, dinge, dings, dirge, dregs, edger, edges, girds, greed, gride, grids, grind, ridge, rigid, and sedge — 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 ingredients produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, diet, digs, dine, dirt, and edge. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dreg, edge, geds, geed, gids, gied, gird, and grid — 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 ingredients turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, get, ids, and its. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingredients. 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.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in ingredients plus one additional letter.
ingredients 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 three senses for ingredients. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ingredients is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ingredients unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ingredients and tenderising, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ingredients 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 ingredients produce 719 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 2 ten-letter words, 18 nine-letter words, 56 eight-letter words, 97 seven-letter words, 174 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.