Hidden inside entreats sit entreats and ratteens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entreats and ratteens tie for the highest Scrabble score from entreats at 8 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in entreats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and entreats 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 entreats and ratteens, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in entreats produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest, and neatest. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including eastern, nearest and neatest.
Unscrambling entreats turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters and estate. For points, 40 words tie at 6 points, including easter, enters and estate.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eaten and enter. For points, 68 words tie at 5 points, including earns, eaten and enter.
Rearranging the letters in entreats produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and earn. For points, 73 words tie at 4 points, including ants, arts and earn.
Unscrambling entreats turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 44 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
10 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in entreats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in entreats 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.
entreats 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 one sense for entreats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
entreats is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entreats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entreats and ratteens, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from entreats 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 entreats produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.