Hidden inside negre sit genre and green, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
NEGRE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GENRE and GREEN.
genre and green tie for the highest Scrabble score from negre at 6 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with green. For points, the strongest plays are genre and green — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in negre. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, ne, and re, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in negre and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are genre and green, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from negre 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 negre produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.