Hidden inside erectness sit erectness and scenester, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erectness and scenester tie for the highest Scrabble score from erectness at 11 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in erectness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and erectness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erectness and scenester, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erectness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centeses, secretes, and sesterce, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in erectness produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, essence, resents, screens, and secrets. For points, the strongest plays are censers, centers, centres, creeses, cresset, essence, resects, screens, secerns, secrete, secrets, senesce, and tenrecs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erectness turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, enters, recent, recess, resent, scenes, and scents. For points, the strongest plays are censer, censes, center, centre, certes, creese, crests, erects, recent, recess, resect, scenes, scents, screen, screes, secern, secret, tenrec, and terces — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erectness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, enter, nests, rents, rests, scene, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cense, cents, ceres, certs, cetes, cress, crest, erect, scene, scent, scree, sects, and terce — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in erectness produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, nest, nets, rent, rest, seen, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cere, cert, cess, cete, recs, secs, sect, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erectness turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erectness. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, es, et, ne, re, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in erectness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erectness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
erectness 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 erectness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
erectness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erectness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erectness and scenester, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erectness 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 erectness produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.