Hidden inside noter sit noter, tenor, toner and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
noter, tenor, toner and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from noter at 5 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in noter: three come from rearranging its letters, and noter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are noter, tenor, toner, and trone, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
27 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in noter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in noter and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
noter 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.
noter is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing noter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are noter, tenor, toner, and trone, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from noter 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 noter produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.