Hidden inside earnests sit assenter, earnests, sarsenet and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assenter, earnests, sarsenet and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from earnests at 8 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in earnests: three come from rearranging its letters, and earnests 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 assenter, earnests, sarsenet, and steranes, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earnests produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, nearest, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are earnest, eastern, easters, entases, nearest, nesters, renests, reseats, resents, sarsnet, sateens, searest, seaters, senates, sensate, sterane, teasers, and tessera — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earnests turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, erases, neater, resent, sanest, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are antres, arenes, aretes, assent, assert, astern, asters, easers, easter, eaters, enates, entera, enters, erases, esters, neater, nester, ranees, reests, renest, rentes, reseat, resent, resets, sanest, sarees, sarsen, sateen, seater, senate, serest, snares, sneers, stanes, stares, steers, steres, sterna, sterns, tasers, teaser, teases, tenser, tenses, ternes, and treens — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earnests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eases, eaten, enter, erase, nests, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are antes, antre, arene, arete, arses, asset, aster, earns, easer, eases, easts, eaten, eater, enate, enter, erase, ernes, erses, esnes, ester, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, nests, ranee, rants, rases, rates, reest, rente, rents, resat, reses, reset, rests, saner, sanes, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, senes, sensa, sense, sente, sents, seres, setae, snare, sneer, stane, stans, stare, stars, steer, stere, stern, tares, tarns, taser, tases, tasse, tears, tease, teens, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, trans, trass, treen, trees, tress, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earnests produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, ease, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are anes, ante, ants, ares, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erne, erns, erst, eses, esne, esse, ests, etas, etna, naes, nare, near, neat, ness, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rees, rent, rest, rete, rets, sane, sans, sate, sear, seas, seat, seen, seer, sees, sene, sent, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, stan, star, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, teen, tees, tens, tern, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earnests turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ess, est, eta, nae, nee, net, ran, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, san, sat, sea, see, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, tee, ten, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earnests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
25 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in earnests plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in earnests 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.
earnests 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 earnests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
earnests is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earnests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assenter, earnests, sarsenet, and steranes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earnests 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 earnests produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.