Hidden inside hankerer sit hankerer and harkener, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hankerer and harkener tie for the highest Scrabble score from hankerer at 15 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hankerer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hankerer 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 hankerer and harkener, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling hankerer produces exactly one seven-letter word: hearken. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hankerer turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nearer. For points, the strongest plays are hanker and harken — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are akene, kerne, rakee, and raker, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankerer produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, hear, here, knee, near, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, hake, hank, hark, and khan — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hankerer turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, hen, her, nah, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ark, eek, eke, kae, kea, and ken — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 hankerer 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.
hankerer 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 hankerer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hankerer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hankerer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hankerer and harkener, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hankerer 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 hankerer produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.