Hidden inside pretense sit preteens, pretense, and terpenes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preteens, pretense, and terpenes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretense at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in pretense: two come from rearranging its letters, and pretense itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preteens, pretense, and terpenes, 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 pretense produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present. For points, the strongest plays are penster, present, preteen, repents, serpent, steepen, steeper, and terpene — 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 pretense turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, resent, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are pensee, pester, peters, preens, preset, repent, sprent, and tepees — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretense. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, penes, rents, spent, steer, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are epees, neeps, peens, peers, penes, peres, perse, peter, preen, prees, prese, prest, speer, spent, spree, steep, strep, and tepee — 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 pretense produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, rent, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are epee, neep, peen, peer, pees, pens, pent, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, reps, seep, 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 pretense turns up 24 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 pretense. 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 pretense 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.
pretense 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 five senses for pretense. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pretense is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretense unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are preteens, pretense, and terpenes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretense 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 pretense produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.