pretended needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretended is the highest-scoring word from pretended, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pretended — and it is pretended itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretended. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repented and repetend, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretended produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and pretend. For points, the strongest plays are petered, preened, preneed, and pretend — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretended turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, depend, needed, rented, and tended. For points, the strongest plays are depend and pended — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended and enter. For points, the strongest play is preed — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretended produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, deer, need, nerd, peed, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pend — 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 pretended turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, pee, pen, per, pet, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretended. 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 pretended 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.
pretended 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 one sense for pretended. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pretended is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretended, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pretended 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 pretended produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.