Hidden inside orneriest sit orienters, orneriest, and reorients, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 355 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
orienters, orneriest, and reorients tie for the highest Scrabble score from orneriest at 9 points. The top 10 of 355 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in orneriest: two come from rearranging its letters, and orneriest 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 orienters, orneriest, and reorients, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orneriest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inserter, introrse, oneriest and 7 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in orneriest produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, restore, and retires. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including entries, restore and retires.
Unscrambling orneriest turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and resent. For points, 73 words tie at 6 points, including enters, entire and resent.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orneriest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, irons and noise. For points, 93 words tie at 5 points, including enter, irons and noise.
Rearranging the letters in orneriest produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and nest. For points, 79 words tie at 4 points, including into, iron and nest.
Unscrambling orneriest turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and nor. For points, 51 words tie at 3 points, including its, net and nor.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orneriest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in orneriest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in orneriest 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.
orneriest 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.
orneriest is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing orneriest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are orienters, orneriest, and reorients, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from orneriest 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 orneriest produce 355 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.