Hidden inside adherents sit adherents and neatherds, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 549 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adherents and neatherds tie for the highest Scrabble score from adherents at 13 points. The top 10 of 549 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adherents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adherents 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 adherents and neatherds, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adherents. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adherent, hastened, headrest, and neatherd, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adherents produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern and hardest. For points, 18 words tie at 11 points, including hardest, trashed and adheres.
Unscrambling adherents turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths, desert and earned. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including deaths, heated and shared.
There are 161 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adherents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including death, hands and hated.
Rearranging the letters in adherents produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and dare. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including hand, hard and head.
Unscrambling adherents turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adherents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in adherents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adherents 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.
adherents 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in adherents carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for adherents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
adherents is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adherents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adherents and neatherds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adherents 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 adherents produce 549 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 161 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.