Hidden inside inserts sit estrins, inserts, sinters and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estrins, inserts, sinters and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from inserts at 7 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in inserts: three come from rearranging its letters, and inserts 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 estrins, inserts, sinters, and strines, 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 inserts turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, sirens, and sister. For points, the strongest plays are estrin, inerts, insert, insets, inters, niters, nitres, resins, resist, resits, rinses, serins, sinter, sirens, sister, steins, sterns, strine, triens, and trines — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inserts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, rents, rests, risen, rises, siren, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are inert, inset, inter, neist, nerts, nests, niter, nites, nitre, reins, rents, resin, resit, rests, rinse, risen, rises, rites, senti, sents, serin, sines, siren, sires, sites, snits, stein, stern, sties, stirs, teins, terns, tiers, tines, tires, tress, tries, and trine — 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 inserts produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, rent, rest, rise, sent, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are erns, erst, ests, ires, ness, nest, nets, nite, nits, rein, reis, rent, rest, rets, rins, rise, rite, seis, sent, sers, sets, sine, sins, sire, sirs, site, sits, snit, sris, stir, tein, tens, tern, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, and tres — 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 inserts turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, set, sin, sir, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are ens, ern, ers, ess, est, ins, ire, its, net, nit, rei, res, ret, rin, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sis, sit, sri, ten, tes, tie, tin, and tis — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inserts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, re, 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 inserts 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.
inserts 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 eight senses for inserts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
inserts is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inserts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estrins, inserts, sinters, and strines, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inserts 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 inserts produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.