indigen needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indigen is the highest-scoring word from indigen, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in indigen — and it is indigen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indigen turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining and ending. For points, the strongest plays are dieing, dining, ending, ginned, indign, and niding — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest plays are deign and dinge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indigen produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine and nine. For points, the strongest plays are ding and gied — 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 indigen turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, and end. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indigen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 indigen 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.
indigen 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for indigen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
indigen is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indigen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indigen, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indigen 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 indigen produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.