Hidden inside indents sit dentins, indents, and intends, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentins, indents, and intends tie for the highest Scrabble score from indents at 8 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in indents: two come from rearranging its letters, and indents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intends. For points, the strongest plays are dentins, indents, and intends — 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 indents turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intend and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are dentin, idents, indent, intend, sinned, teinds, and tinned — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines, edits, nines, and tends. For points, the strongest plays are deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, ident, inned, nides, sited, snide, stied, teind, tends, tides, and tined — 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 indents produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dine, edit, ends, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dens, dent, desi, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dite, dits, edit, ends, ides, nide, send, side, sned, teds, 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 indents turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, its, net, set, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dis, dit, eds, end, ids, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indents. 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.
Swap a single tile in indents 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.
indents 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 seven senses for indents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
indents is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dentins, indents, and intends, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indents 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 indents produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.