ingresses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ingresses is the highest-scoring word from ingresses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ingresses — and it is ingresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingresses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gneisses and greisens, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ingresses produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singers. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including singers, genesis and greisen.
Unscrambling ingresses turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeing, senses and series. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including seeing, singer and egises.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, green and rings. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including genes, green and rings.
Rearranging the letters in ingresses produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, rigs and ring. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including gene, rigs and ring.
Unscrambling ingresses turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, rig and see. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including gee, rig and eng.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ingresses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ingresses 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.
ingresses 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 ingresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ingresses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ingresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ingresses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ingresses 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 ingresses produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.