Hidden inside pretens sit penster, present, repents and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PRETENS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PENSTER, PRESENT, REPENTS and SERPENT.
penster, present, repents and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretens at 9 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pretens produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present. For points, the strongest plays are penster, present, repents, and serpent — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pretens turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, resent, and tenser. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including pester, peters and preens.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, penes and rents. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including penes, spent and neeps.
Rearranging the letters in pretens produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pees. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pens and pets.
Unscrambling pretens turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee and pen. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including pee, pen and per.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretens. 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.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pretens and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are penster, present, repents, and serpent, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretens 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 pretens produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.