intrigues 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, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intrigues is the highest-scoring word from intrigues, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in intrigues — and it is intrigues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intrigues. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are igniters, intrigue, resiting, and stingier, 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 intrigues produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resting and suiting. For points, the strongest plays are gunites, gunters, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, igniter, ignites, resting, reusing, rusting, stinger, suiting, tiering, and trueing — 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 intrigues turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, rising, singer, string, tigers, tinier, and urgent. For points, the strongest plays are engirt, genius, grunts, gunite, gunter, gurnet, ignite, ingest, regius, reigns, renigs, resign, rising, rueing, sering, signer, signet, singer, siring, siting, stinge, string, strung, tieing, tigers, tinges, tiring, truing, 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 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intrigues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, guest, nurse, rents, rings, risen, and ruins. For points, the strongest plays are genii, gents, genus, girns, girts, gites, grins, grist, grits, grues, grunt, guest, guise, iring, 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 intrigues produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, guns, guts, nest, nets, nuts, and rent. 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 intrigues turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun, gut, its, net, nut, and rig. 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 intrigues. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intrigues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intrigues 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.
intrigues 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 3-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 intrigues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
intrigues is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intrigues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intrigues, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intrigues 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 intrigues produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.