Hidden inside nugent sit gent, genu, tegu and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gent, genu, tegu and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from nugent at 5 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling nugent turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun and gut. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including get, gun and gut.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nugent. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, et, ne and 4 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in nugent plus one additional letter.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gent, genu, tegu, and tung, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nugent 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 nugent produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.