Hidden inside enter sit enter, rente, terne and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enter, rente, terne and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from enter at 5 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in enter: three come from rearranging its letters, and enter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are enter, rente, terne, and treen — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enter. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, et and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
40 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in enter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in enter and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
enter 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 nine senses for enter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
enter is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enter, rente, terne, and treen, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from enter 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 enter produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.