negligent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
negligent is the highest-scoring word from negligent, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in negligent — and it is negligent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negligent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gentling and gleeting, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in negligent produces 3 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 neglige, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling negligent turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine and gentle. For points, the strongest plays are geeing, giglet, leggin, and niggle — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negligent. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genet, genie, gleet, glint, ingle, legit, liege, tenge, and tinge, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in negligent produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, lent, line, nine, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are gleg and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling negligent turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gee, get, gig, leg, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negligent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in negligent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in negligent 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.
negligent 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 5-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 negligent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
negligent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing negligent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is negligent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from negligent 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 negligent produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.