pretenders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretenders is the highest-scoring word from pretenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pretenders — and it is pretenders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pretenders turns up 7 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presented and represent. For points, the strongest plays are presented, pretender, and repetends — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pretends and resented. For points, the strongest plays are pestered, pretends, repented, and repetend — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pretenders produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deepest, entered and present. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including deepest, pretend and deepens.
Unscrambling pretenders turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, desert and enters. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including deeper, deepen and peened.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, enter and needs. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including speed, spend and deeps.
Rearranging the letters in pretenders produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and ends. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling pretenders turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretenders. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretenders plus one additional letter.
pretenders 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 pretenders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pretenders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretenders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pretenders 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 pretenders produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.