Hidden inside neguses sit genuses and neguses, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
genuses and neguses tie for the highest Scrabble score from neguses at 8 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in neguses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and neguses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genuses and neguses, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neguses turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is segues, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neguses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, guess, and sense. For points, the strongest plays are genes, genus, guess, negus, segue, and snugs — 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 neguses produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, guns, seen, sees, sues, sung, and suns. For points, the strongest plays are engs, gees, gene, gens, genu, gnus, guns, negs, nugs, segs, snug, and sung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neguses turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, gun, see, sue, sun, and use. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gee, gen, gnu, gun, neg, nug, and seg — each worth 4 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 neguses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, ne, nu, un, and us — each worth 2 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 neguses and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
neguses 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
neguses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neguses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are genuses and neguses, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from neguses 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 neguses produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.