Hidden inside signifier sit nigrifies and signifier, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nigrifies and signifier tie for the highest Scrabble score from signifier at 13 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in signifier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signifier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nigrifies and signifier, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling signifier produces exactly one eight-letter word: ignifies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in signifier produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fingers. For points, the strongest plays are fingers, firings, and fringes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling signifier turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, firing, griefs, rising, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, finger, firing, friges, fringe, and griefs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, fries, genii, grief, rings, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are feign, frigs, and grief — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in signifier produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, rigs, ring, rise, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, and gifs — 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 signifier turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 signifier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signifier 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.
signifier 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 2-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 signifier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
signifier is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signifier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nigrifies and signifier, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signifier 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 signifier produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.