Hidden inside resident sit inserted, nerdiest, resident and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inserted, nerdiest, resident and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from resident at 9 points. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in resident: four come from rearranging its letters, and resident itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resident. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including resident, inserted and nerdiest.
Rearranging the letters in resident produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including deniers, destine and diester.
Unscrambling resident turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert and desire. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including denies, desert and desire.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resident. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets and diner. For points, 45 words tie at 6 points, including deers, diets and diner.
Rearranging the letters in resident produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and diet. For points, 43 words tie at 5 points, including deer, dies and diet.
Unscrambling resident turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including die, end and ids.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resident. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
20 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in resident plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in resident 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.
resident 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 four senses for resident. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
resident is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resident unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inserted, nerdiest, resident, sintered, and trendies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resident 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 resident produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.