Hidden inside negatives sit agentives and negatives, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 397 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agentives and negatives tie for the highest Scrabble score from negatives at 13 points. The top 10 of 397 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in negatives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and negatives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agentives and negatives, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with negative. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including negative, agentive and envisage.
Rearranging the letters in negatives produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naivest, seating, and teasing. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including avenges, genevas and staving.
Unscrambling negatives turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing and eating. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including saving, vegans and avenge.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, eaten and event. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including given, gives and vegan.
Rearranging the letters in negatives produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and ease. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling negatives turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negatives. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in negatives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in negatives 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.
negatives 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 twelve senses for negatives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
negatives is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negatives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agentives and negatives, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from negatives 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 negatives produce 397 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.