Hidden inside astringent sit astringent and integrants, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 728 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astringent and integrants tie for the highest Scrabble score from astringent at 11 points. The top 10 of 728 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in astringent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and astringent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astringent and integrants, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling astringent turns up 11 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gannister, integrant, nattering, rattening, restating, retasting, stringent, and treatings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, starting, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are aginners, angriest, angstier, antigens, astringe, earnings, engrains, estating, ganister, gantries, gentians, gitterns, gnattier, granites, grannies, ingrates, nettings, rangiest, rantings, starting, tangents, tangiest, tasering, and treating — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in astringent produces 112 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, erasing, insaner, interns, nastier, ratings, and renting. For points, the strongest plays are aginner, aigrets, anteing, antigen, antings, argents, earings, earning, easting, eatings, engrain, erasing, gainers, gaiters, gannets, garnets, gastrin, genista, gentian, ginners, gittern, granite, grannie, gratine, gratins, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, innages, nearing, nesting, netting, ranting, ratings, ratting, reagins, regains, reginas, regnant, renting, resting, retting, ringent, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, setting, snaring, stagier, staning, staring, stating, stinger, strange, tagines, tangent, tangier, targets, tarting, tasting, tearing, teasing, tensing, tenting, testing, and triages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling astringent turns up 136 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, artist, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aigret, angers, anting, argent, atting, earing, easing, eating, engirt, ensign, gainer, gainst, gaiter, gannet, garnet, gaster, gaters, giants, ginner, grains, grants, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, ingate, ingest, innage, ranges, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, resign, retags, sagier, sanger, saning, sating, sering, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, targes, target, taring, tasing, tigers, tinges, and triage — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gains, gates, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agist, anger, angst, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, gents, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in astringent produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling astringent turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in astringent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in astringent plus one additional letter.
astringent 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 three senses for astringent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
astringent is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing astringent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astringent and integrants, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from astringent 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 astringent produce 728 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 11 nine-letter words, 34 eight-letter words, 112 seven-letter words, 136 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.