Hidden inside latents sit latents, lattens, and talents, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
latents, lattens, and talents tie for the highest Scrabble score from latents at 7 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in latents: two come from rearranging its letters, and latents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with talents. For points, the strongest plays are latents, lattens, and talents — 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 latents turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latest, lattes, and talent. For points, the strongest plays are latens, latent, latest, latten, lattes, and talent — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in latents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lanes, latte, leans, least, state, steal, and tales. For points, the strongest plays are antes, elans, etnas, lanes, laten, latte, leans, leant, least, nates, neats, netts, setal, slant, slate, stale, stane, state, steal, stela, stent, taels, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, tents, tesla, and testa — 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 latents produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, lane, last, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, anes, ante, ants, ates, east, eats, elan, etas, etna, lane, lase, last, late, lats, lean, leas, lens, lent, lest, lets, naes, neat, nest, nets, nett, sale, salt, sane, sate, seal, seat, sent, seta, sett, slat, stan, stat, stet, tael, tale, tans, tase, tate, tats, teal, teas, teat, tela, tels, tens, tent, test, and tets — 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 latents turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, let, net, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ane, ant, ate, ats, att, eat, els, ens, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, nae, net, sae, sal, san, sat, sea, sel, sen, set, tae, tan, tas, tat, tea, tel, ten, tes, and tet — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in latents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, as, at, el, en, es, et, la, na, ne, ta, and te — 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 latents 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.
latents 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 two senses for latents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
latents is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing latents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are latents, lattens, and talents, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from latents 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 latents produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.