Hidden inside entires sit entires, entries, retines and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entires, entries, retines and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from entires at 7 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in entires: three come from rearranging its letters, and entires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries. For points, the strongest plays are entires, entries, retines, and trienes — 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 entires turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are enters, entire, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, nereis, nester, niters, nitres, renest, rentes, resent, resite, reties, retine, seiner, serein, serine, sinter, strine, tenesi, tenser, ternes, treens, triene, triens, and trines — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, rents, risen, siren, steer, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are enter, ernes, ester, inert, inset, inter, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, reest, reins, rente, rents, reset, resin, resit, retie, rinse, risen, rites, seine, sente, senti, serin, siree, siren, sneer, steer, stein, stere, stern, teens, teins, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, tiers, tines, tires, treen, trees, tries, and trine — 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 entires produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, rent, rest, rise, seen, and sent. For points, the strongest plays are erne, erns, erst, esne, ires, nest, nets, nite, nits, rees, rein, reis, rent, rest, rete, rets, rins, rise, rite, seen, seer, sene, sent, sere, sine, sire, site, snit, stir, teen, tees, tein, tens, tern, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, tree, and tres — 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 entires turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, see, set, sin, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ens, ere, ern, ers, est, ins, ire, its, nee, net, nit, ree, rei, res, ret, rin, see, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sit, sri, tee, ten, tes, tie, tin, and tis — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
51 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in entires plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in entires and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
entires 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 five senses for entires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
entires is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entires, entries, retines, and trienes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from entires 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 entires produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.