intelligentsia needs no unscrambling at all — the fourteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1036 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intelligentsia is the highest-scoring word from intelligentsia, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1036 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one fourteen-letter word uses the letters in intelligentsia — and it is intelligentsia itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligentsia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intelligent. For points, the strongest plays are genialities, gentilities, and intelligent — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intelligentsia produces 14 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with installing. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including installing, eglantines and gelatinise.
Unscrambling intelligentsia turns up 39 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitling, initiates, listening, and satellite. For points, 31 words tie at 10 points, including entitling, listening and agilities.
There are 95 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligentsia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitles, genitals and gentlest. For points, 68 words tie at 9 points, including genitals, gentlest and settling.
Rearranging the letters in intelligentsia produces 179 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elegant, engines and entitle. For points, 111 words tie at 8 points, including elegant, engines and lasting.
Unscrambling intelligentsia turns up 194 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens and angels. For points, 87 words tie at 7 points, including agents, angels and angles.
There are 200 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligentsia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle and alien. For points, 69 words tie at 6 points, including agent, angel and angle.
Rearranging the letters in intelligentsia produces 194 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and lane. For points, 56 words tie at 5 points, including ages, legs and nags.
Unscrambling intelligentsia turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ant. For points, 25 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intelligentsia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 fifteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in intelligentsia plus one additional letter.
intelligentsia 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 one sense for intelligentsia. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
intelligentsia is the only fourteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intelligentsia unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intelligentsia, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intelligentsia 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 intelligentsia produce 1036 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 fourteen-letter word, 4 eleven-letter words, 14 ten-letter words, 39 nine-letter words, 95 eight-letter words, 179 seven-letter words, 194 six-letter words, 200 five-letter words, 194 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.