Hidden inside ensure sit ensure and enures, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RENUES, URENES or NRUSEE and you get the same 6 letters as ENSURE: so the words from ENSURE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ensure and enures tie for the highest Scrabble score from ensure at 6 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ensure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ensure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensure and enures, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ensure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nurse. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including nurse, ensue and enure.
Rearranging the letters in ensure produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with runs, seen, and sure. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including runs, seen and sure.
Unscrambling ensure turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with run, see and sue. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including run, see and sue.
Swap a single tile in ensure 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.
ensure 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 ensure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
ensure is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ensure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ensure and enures, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ensure 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 ensure produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.