negates needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negates is the highest-scoring word from negates, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in negates — and it is negates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negates turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, agents, egesta, genets, gentes, negate, senega, and tenges — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, eaten, gates, genes, stage, tease, and teens. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, angst, egest, gates, geans, geest, genes, genet, gents, geste, getas, gnats, stage, stang, tangs, and tenge — 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 negates produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, ease, east, eats, gate, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ages, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gees, gene, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gnat, nags, negs, sage, sang, snag, stag, tags, tang, and tegs — 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 negates turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gas, gee, and get. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gan, gas, gat, gee, gen, get, nag, neg, sag, seg, tag, and teg — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in negates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
negates 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 four senses for negates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
negates is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is negates, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from negates 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 negates produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.