Hidden inside negativism sit negativism and timesaving, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 552 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negativism and timesaving tie for the highest Scrabble score from negativism at 16 points. The top 10 of 552 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in negativism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and negativism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are negativism and timesaving, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negativism turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vitamines, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negativism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imagines, steaming, and vitamins. For points, the strongest plays are misgiven and veganism — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in negativism produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imagine, invites and magnets. For points, the strongest plays are misgave and misgive — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negativism turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aiming and easing. For points, the strongest plays are mavens, mavies, mavins, and vimina — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 127 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negativism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains and games. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including maven, mavie and mavin.
Rearranging the letters in negativism produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and amen. For points, the strongest play is vims — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negativism turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ant. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negativism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in negativism plus one additional letter.
negativism 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for negativism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
negativism is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negativism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are negativism and timesaving, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from negativism 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 negativism produce 552 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 127 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.