negligence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negligence is the highest-scoring word from negligence, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in negligence — and it is negligence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negligence. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lenience and negligee, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negligence produces exactly one seven-letter word: neglige. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negligence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with niece. For points, the strongest plays are cling and genic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in negligence produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, lice and line. For points, the strongest play is cleg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling negligence turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gee and gig. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in negligence plus one additional letter.
negligence 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 6-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 negligence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
negligence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negligence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is negligence, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from negligence 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 negligence produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.