Hidden inside insensate sit antisense and insensate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 251 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antisense and insensate tie for the highest Scrabble score from insensate at 9 points. The top 10 of 251 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in insensate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and insensate 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 antisense and insensate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insensate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insanest. For points, the strongest plays are etesians, insanest, neatness, stanines, teniases, and tennises — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in insensate produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and intense. For points, the strongest plays are easiest, entases, entasis, etesian, inanest, intense, nasties, neatens, sateens, seitans, senates, sennets, sennits, sensate, sestina, sestine, siennas, sinnets, stanine, tansies, tennesi, tennies, and tisanes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling insensate turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, saints, sanest, stains, teases, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are anenst, anises, assent, easies, enates, inanes, innate, insane, insets, neaten, niente, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sateen, satins, seines, seitan, senate, sennas, sennet, sennit, sensei, sienna, siesta, sinnet, stains, stanes, steins, tassie, teases, tenesi, teniae, tenias, tennes, tennis, tenses, tineas, and tisane — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insensate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, eaten, nests, nines, saint, seats, and sense. For points, the strongest plays are anent, anise, antes, antis, asset, eases, easts, eaten, enate, entia, esnes, etnas, inane, inset, nates, neats, neist, nenes, nests, nines, nites, sains, saint, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seats, seine, seise, senes, senna, sensa, sense, sente, senti, sents, setae, sines, sites, snits, stain, stane, stans, stein, sties, tains, tases, tasse, tease, teens, teins, tenia, tenne, tense, tians, tinea, and tines — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in insensate produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, ease, east, eats, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, ease, east, eats, eses, esne, esse, ests, etas, etna, inns, naes, nans, neat, nene, ness, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, sain, sane, sans, sate, sati, seas, seat, seen, sees, seis, sene, sent, seta, sets, sine, sins, site, sits, snit, stan, tain, tans, tase, tass, teas, teen, tees, tein, tens, tian, ties, tine, and tins — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling insensate turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, its, net, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ass, ate, ats, eat, ens, ess, est, eta, inn, ins, its, nae, nan, nee, net, nit, sae, san, sat, sea, see, sei, sen, set, sin, sis, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, tee, ten, tes, tie, tin, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insensate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in insensate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in insensate 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.
insensate 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 insensate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
insensate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing insensate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antisense and insensate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from insensate 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 insensate produce 251 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.