Hidden inside attender sit attender, nattered, and rattened, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attender, nattered, and rattened tie for the highest Scrabble score from attender at 9 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in attender: two come from rearranging its letters, and attender itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attender, nattered, and rattened, 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 attender produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treated. For points, the strongest plays are dentate and treated — 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 attender turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, earned, neater, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are anteed, ardent, attend, derate, detent, earned, endear, neared, netted, ranted, ratted, redate, rented, retted, tarted, teared, teated, tender, tented, and tetrad — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, trade, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are anted, atted, dater, denar, derat, deter, eared, ender, rated, redan, tared, trade, tread, treed, and trend — 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 attender produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deer, earn, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are dare, darn, dart, date, dean, dear, deer, deet, dene, dent, dere, drat, dree, nard, need, nerd, rand, read, rede, reed, rend, teed, tend, and trad — 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 attender turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are and, dan, dee, den, end, rad, red, tad, and ted — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in attender and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
attender 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 1-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 attender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
attender is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attender, nattered, and rattened, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attender 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 attender produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.