Hidden inside dearnt sit ardent and ranted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEARNT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARDENT and RANTED.
ardent and ranted tie for the highest Scrabble score from dearnt at 7 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dearnt turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ardent and ranted, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearnt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including trade, anted and dater.
Rearranging the letters in dearnt produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling dearnt turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including and, end and red.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearnt. 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.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dearnt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dearnt and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ardent and ranted, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dearnt 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 dearnt produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.