Hidden inside dents sit dents and tends, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dents and tends tie for the highest Scrabble score from dents at 6 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in dents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tends. For points, the strongest plays are dents and tends — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dents produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ends, nest, nets, send, sent, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are dens, dent, ends, send, sned, teds, and tend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dents turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are den, eds, end, and ted — each worth 4 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 dents. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 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 dents and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
dents 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 four senses for dents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
dents is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dents and tends, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dents 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 dents produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.