neglected needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neglected is the highest-scoring word from neglected, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in neglected — and it is neglected itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in neglected produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elected. For points, the strongest plays are elected and neglect — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neglected turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decent, delete, gentle, legend, and needle. For points, the strongest play is decent — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglected. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elect. For points, the strongest plays are elect, glede, gleed, and ledge — 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 neglected produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, edge, gene, lend, lent, need, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cleg — each 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 neglected turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, gee, get, led, leg, let, and net. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, ged, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglected. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, 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 neglected 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.
neglected 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 two senses for neglected. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
neglected is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neglected unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is neglected, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from neglected 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 neglected produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.