Hidden inside serpents sit pensters, pertness, presents and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pensters, pertness, presents and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from serpents at 10 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in serpents: three come from rearranging its letters, and serpents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presents. For points, the strongest plays are pensters, pertness, presents, and serpents — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in serpents produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present and resents. For points, the strongest plays are penster, pesters, present, presets, repents, and serpent — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serpents turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, resent, steers, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are perses, pester, peters, preens, preset, prests, repent, speers, spense, sprees, sprent, steeps, and streps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serpents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, nests, penes, press, rents, rests, and sense. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, peens, peers, penes, peres, perse, pests, peter, preen, prees, prese, press, prest, seeps, septs, speer, spent, spree, steep, steps, and strep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in serpents produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, psst, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are neep, peen, peer, pees, pens, pent, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, psst, reps, seep, seps, sept, and step — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serpents turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee, pen, per, pet, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are pee, pen, per, pes, pet, pst, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serpents. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 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 serpents and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
serpents 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 three senses for serpents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
serpents is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serpents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pensters, pertness, presents, and serpents, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serpents 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 serpents produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.