Hidden inside dentin sit dentin, indent, intend and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentin, indent, intend and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dentin at 7 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in dentin: three come from rearranging its letters, and dentin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intend. For points, the strongest plays are dentin, indent, intend, and tinned — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ident, inned, teind, and tined, 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 dentin produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine, edit, nine, tend, and tied. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dite, edit, nide, tend, tide, and tied — 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 dentin turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, net, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dit, end, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dentin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 dentin 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.
dentin 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 two senses for dentin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
dentin is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dentin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dentin, indent, intend, and tinned, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dentin 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 dentin produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.