Unscramble INGENUOUS and you have 174 words, INGENUOUS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
I1N12G23E1N12U12O1U12S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from INGENUOUS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 5 with 7, 15 with 6, 22 with 5, 55 with 4, 54 with 3 and 21 with 2.
Just 1 of the 8-letter words in INGENUOUS: ENGINOUS, for 9 points.
Of the 55 4-letter words from INGENUOUS, 32 score 5 points, the group's best. SIGN, NONE and SONG are the ones most people know.
54 3-letter words in INGENUOUS; 24 of them share the top score of 4. ONE, USE and SUN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of INGENUOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IN · ending in US · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ENSUING, GUENONS, GUNNIES and IGNEOUS (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
INGENUOUS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INGENUOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 174) | 129 | 174 | 116 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 45 of them: INGENUS, ENNOGS, INGENU, INGOES, ENNOG, NONGS, GEOS, GINN, GIOS, GONS, GUES, INGO and 33 more. Words With Friends* skips 13 of them: NEGS, NONIS, NUGS, GIS, GOS, NEG, NONI, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI, UNI and 1 more.
With one more tile, the letters of INGENUOUS spell the words below.