neglect needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neglect is the highest-scoring word from neglect, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in neglect — and it is neglect itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling neglect produces exactly one six-letter word: gentle. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglect. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: elect, 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 neglect produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, gene, lent, and teen. For points, the strongest play is cleg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neglect turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, leg, let, net, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, and tec — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglect. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, en, et, ne, and te, each worth 2 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 neglect 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.
neglect 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 nine senses for neglect. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
neglect is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neglect unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is neglect, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from neglect 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 neglect produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.