Hidden inside intents sit intents and tennist, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intents and tennist tie for the highest Scrabble score from intents at 7 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in intents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and intents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intents and tennist, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intents turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, the strongest plays are intent, sennit, sinnet, sitten, and tennis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines and tents. For points, the strongest plays are inset, neist, netts, nines, nites, senti, stein, stent, stint, teins, tents, tines, and tints — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in intents produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nine, sent, site, tent, and test. For points, the strongest plays are inns, nest, nets, nett, nine, nite, nits, sent, sett, sine, site, snit, stet, tein, tens, tent, test, tets, ties, tine, tins, tint, and tits — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling intents turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, set, sin, sit, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ens, est, inn, ins, its, net, nit, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, ten, tes, tet, tie, tin, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 intents and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
intents 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 three senses for intents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
intents is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intents and tennist, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from intents 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 intents produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.