Hidden inside insurgent sit insurgent and unresting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 378 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
insurgent and unresting tie for the highest Scrabble score from insurgent at 10 points. The top 10 of 378 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in insurgent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and insurgent 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 insurgent and unresting, each worth 10 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 insurgent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensuring, retuning, tenuring, turnings, and unstring, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in insurgent produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interns, nursing, renting, resting, and turning. For points, the strongest plays are ensuing, enuring, ginners, gunites, gunners, gunnies, gunters, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, nesting, nursing, renting, resting, reusing, ringent, rusting, stinger, tensing, trueing, tunings, and turning — 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 insurgent turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, intern, singer, string, tennis, tigers, and tuning. For points, the strongest plays are engirt, ensign, genius, ginner, grunts, gunite, gunner, gunter, gurnet, ingest, regius, reigns, renigs, resign, rueing, sering, signer, signet, singer, stinge, string, strung, tigers, tinges, truing, tuning, ungirt, unrigs, and urgent — 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 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insurgent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest, inner, nines, nurse, rents, rings, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are gents, genus, girns, girts, gites, grins, grist, grits, grues, grunt, guest, guise, negus, reign, renig, rings, ruing, rungs, segni, sengi, singe, sting, stung, suing, surge, tegus, tiger, tinge, tings, trigs, trugs, tungs, unrig, urges, and using — 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 insurgent produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, guns, guts, nest, nets, nine, and nuns. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, ergs, gens, gent, genu, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnus, grin, grit, grue, guns, gust, guts, negs, nugs, regs, rigs, ring, rugs, rung, sign, sing, snug, sung, tegs, tegu, ting, trig, trug, tugs, tung, and urge — 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 insurgent turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun, gut, its, net, nun, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, gnu, gun, gut, neg, nug, reg, rig, rug, seg, sig, teg, and tug — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insurgent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in insurgent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in insurgent 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.
insurgent 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 4-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 insurgent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
insurgent is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing insurgent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are insurgent and unresting, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from insurgent 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 insurgent produce 378 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.