Hidden inside entries 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 entries 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 entries: three come from rearranging its letters, and entries 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.
Unscrambling entries turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, resent, and tenser. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including enters, entire and resent.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, rents and risen. For points, 47 words tie at 5 points, including enter, rents and risen.
Rearranging the letters in entries produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and rent. For points, 41 words tie at 4 points, including nest, nets and rent.
Unscrambling entries turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and see. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including its, net and see.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
51 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in entries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in entries 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.
entries 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 six senses for entries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
entries is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entries 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 entries 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 entries 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.