intelligent needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intelligent is the highest-scoring word from intelligent, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in intelligent — and it is intelligent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intelligent turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitling. For points, the strongest plays are entitling, inletting, and telneting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leniting and nettling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intelligent produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, letting, and telling. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including letting, telling and gentile.
Unscrambling intelligent turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine, gentle, lining, and little. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including engine, gentle and lining.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and title. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including genii, genet and genie.
Rearranging the letters in intelligent produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, lent and line. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including gene, gelt and gent.
Unscrambling intelligent turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and ill. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including gee, get and leg.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
intelligent 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for intelligent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
intelligent is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intelligent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intelligent, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intelligent 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 intelligent produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.