Hidden inside negating sit agenting and negating, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agenting and negating tie for the highest Scrabble score from negating at 10 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in negating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and negating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agenting and negating, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in negating produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tanging, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling negating turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating. For points, the strongest plays are ageing, gaeing, and gating — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are aggie and aging — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in negating produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang, gate, neat, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are gage, gang, giga, and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling negating turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, egg, gag, and get. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each 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 negating and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
negating 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.
negating is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agenting and negating, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from negating 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 negating produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.