Hidden inside indenters sit indenters and intenders, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 377 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indenters and intenders tie for the highest Scrabble score from indenters at 10 points. The top 10 of 377 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in indenters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indenters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are indenters and intenders, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indenters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intenser and resident. For points, the strongest plays are dentines, desinent, indenter, inserted, intender, interned, nerdiest, resident, sintered, and trendies — 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 indenters produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinners, entries, intends, intense, and interns. For points, the strongest plays are deniers, dentine, dentins, destine, diester, dieters, dinners, endites, endrins, indenes, indents, intends, nereids, reedits, resined, resited, sterned, tenders, and tinders — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indenters turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desert, desire, diners, dinner, driest, and enters. For points, the strongest plays are denier, denies, denser, dentin, desert, desire, deters, dienes, dieter, diners, dinner, direst, driest, eiders, enders, endite, endrin, idents, indene, indent, intend, nereid, nested, reedit, reined, rented, resend, reside, rested, retied, rident, rinsed, seined, sender, sinned, snider, stride, teinds, tender, tensed, tiered, tinder, tinned, trends, and trined — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indenters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, diner, dines, dries, edits, and enter. For points, the strongest plays are deers, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, deter, diene, diets, diner, dines, dints, dirts, dites, drees, drest, dries, edits, eider, ender, ident, inned, needs, nerds, nides, redes, reeds, rends, resid, rides, rinds, seder, sered, sired, sited, snide, steed, stied, teind, tends, tides, tined, tired, treed, trend, and tried — 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 indenters produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, diet, dine, dirt, edit, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, deet, dene, deni, dens, dent, dere, desi, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dire, dirt, dite, dits, dree, edit, eide, ends, ides, ired, need, nerd, nide, rede, reds, reed, rend, ride, rids, rind, seed, send, side, sned, teds, teed, tend, tide, and tied — 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 indenters turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, its, net, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dee, den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, end, ids, red, rid, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indenters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in indenters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indenters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
indenters 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.
indenters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indenters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are indenters and intenders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indenters 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 indenters produce 377 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.