hesitances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 615 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hesitances is the highest-scoring word from hesitances, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 615 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hesitances — and it is hesitances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hesitances turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asthenics and hesitance, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achiness, asthenic, chanties and 14 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hesitances produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest and teaches. For points, 19 words tie at 12 points, including teaches, achenes and achiest.
Unscrambling hesitances turns up 121 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, ceases and chains. For points, 38 words tie at 11 points, including cashes, chains and chases.
There are 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, scene and scent. For points, 30 words tie at 10 points, including teach, chain and chase.
Rearranging the letters in hesitances produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and chin.
Unscrambling hesitances turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ash. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hesitances plus one additional letter.
hesitances 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 hesitances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
hesitances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hesitances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hesitances, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hesitances 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 hesitances produce 615 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 29 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 121 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.