Hidden inside hankered sit dakerhen, hankered, and harkened, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dakerhen, hankered, and harkened tie for the highest Scrabble score from hankered at 16 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in hankered: two come from rearranging its letters, and hankered 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 dakerhen, hankered, and harkened, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankered produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hearken, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hankered turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned. For points, the strongest plays are hanked and harked — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drank, heard, and naked. For points, the strongest play is kheda — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankered produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dark, dear, deer, earn, hand, and hard. For points, the strongest play is dhak — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hankered turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, had, and hen. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hankered 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.
hankered 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hankered carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hankered is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hankered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dakerhen, hankered, and harkened, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hankered 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 hankered produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.