alertness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 489 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alertness is the highest-scoring word from alertness, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 489 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alertness — and it is alertness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alertness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assenter, earnests, eternals, lateness, nestlers, realness, reslates, salterns, sarsenet, stealers, steranes, tearless, telerans, and tesseral, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alertness produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, eternal, nearest, relates, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are antlers, artless, earless, earnest, eastern, easters, elaters, entases, enteral, eternal, lasters, lateens, leaners, leanest, leasers, nearest, nesters, nestler, nestles, netless, realest, relates, relents, renests, rentals, resales, reseals, reseats, resents, reslate, saltern, salters, sarsnet, sateens, sealers, searest, seaters, senates, sensate, slaters, stealer, sterane, sternal, streels, teasels, teasers, teleran, tessera, and tressel — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alertness turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, easter, enters, erases, lasers, and learns. For points, the strongest plays are alerts, alters, aneles, antler, antres, arenes, aretes, artels, assent, assert, astern, asters, easels, easers, easter, eaters, elater, elates, enates, entera, enters, erases, esters, estral, larees, lasers, laster, lateen, latens, leaner, learns, learnt, leaser, leases, leasts, lenses, lessen, lesser, neater, nester, nestle, ranees, rassle, ratels, reales, reests, relate, relent, relets, renest, rental, rentes, resale, reseal, reseat, resent, resets, salter, sanest, sarees, sarsen, sateen, sealer, seater, senate, serest, slants, slater, slates, sleets, snares, snarls, sneers, staler, stales, stanes, stares, steals, steels, steers, stelae, stelar, steles, steres, sterna, sterns, streel, talers, tasers, tassel, teasel, teaser, teases, tenser, tenses, ternes, teslas, and treens — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alertness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, earns, eases, eaten, enter, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, anele, antes, antre, arene, arete, arles, arses, artel, asset, aster, earls, earns, easel, easer, eases, easts, eaten, eater, elans, elate, enate, enter, erase, ernes, erses, esnes, ester, etnas, lanes, laree, lares, larns, larnt, laser, lases, lasts, laten, later, leans, leant, learn, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, lenes, lense, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, nests, rales, ranee, rants, rases, ratel, rates, reals, reels, reest, relet, renal, rente, rents, resat, reses, reset, rests, sales, salts, saner, sanes, saree, sates, seals, sears, seats, seels, seers, senes, sensa, sense, sente, sents, seral, seres, setae, setal, slant, slate, slats, sleet, snare, snarl, sneer, stale, stane, stans, stare, stars, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, stern, taels, taler, tales, tares, tarns, taser, tases, tasse, teals, tears, tease, teels, teens, telae, teles, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, tesla, trans, trass, treen, trees, tress, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alertness produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are alee, ales, alts, anes, ante, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, earn, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, elan, else, eras, erne, erns, erst, eses, esne, esse, ests, etas, etna, lane, larn, lars, lase, lass, last, late, lats, lean, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, lens, lent, less, lest, lets, naes, nare, near, neat, ness, nest, nets, rale, rant, rase, rate, rats, real, reel, rees, rent, rest, rete, rets, sale, sals, salt, sane, sans, sate, seal, sear, seas, seat, seel, seen, seer, sees, sels, sene, sent, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, slat, stan, star, tael, tale, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, tass, teal, tear, teas, teel, teen, tees, tela, tele, tels, tens, tern, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alertness turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ane, ant, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, eel, els, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ess, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, let, nae, nee, net, ran, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sal, san, sat, sea, see, sel, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, tee, tel, ten, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alertness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, ar, as, at, el, en, er, es, et, la, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in alertness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alertness 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.
alertness 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 three senses for alertness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
alertness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alertness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alertness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alertness 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 alertness produce 489 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.