Unscramble INCENTIVE and you have 88 words, INCENTIVE itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from INCENTIVE split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 12 with 6, 14 with 5, 30 with 4, 21 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 8 letters.
CIVE and VICE share the top score of 9 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble INCENTIVE. EVEN, TEEN and NICE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of INCENTIVE for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with IN · ending in VE · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with EVINCE (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept INCENTIVE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INCENTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 88) | 66 | 88 | 58 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: INVENIT, CIVE, VENITE, NEIVE, CTENE, EEVN, EVET, VINT, VITE, NEINEI, TICE, TINNIE and 10 more, 22 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: INCENT, NIENTE, VIN, INNIE, TEC, TENNE, TEIN and TE, 8 in all.
This word takes every letter of INCENTIVE plus a single extra one.