neglects needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neglects is the highest-scoring word from neglects, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in neglects — and it is neglects itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in neglects produces 2 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 neglect, 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 neglects turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elects, gentle, and select. For points, the strongest plays are elects and select — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, elect, genes, scene, scent, steel, and teens. For points, the strongest play is clegs — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in neglects produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, else, gene, gets, legs, lent, and lets. 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 neglects turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, leg, let, net, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, sec, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neglects. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, en, es, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in neglects plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in neglects 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.
neglects 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 neglects. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
neglects is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neglects unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is neglects, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from neglects 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 neglects produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.