pretension needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 678 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretension is the highest-scoring word from pretension, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 678 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pretension — and it is pretension itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pretension turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entropies, interpose, pensioner, perniones, and spinneret, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intenser. For points, the strongest plays are isoprene, pensione, pereions, pioneers, poetiser, poetries, pointers, porniest, proteins, repoints, and tropines — 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 pretension produces 69 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, intense, interns, openers, pennies, present, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are erepsin, inepter, openers, openest, orpines, penners, pennies, pension, penster, pentose, peonies, pereion, pereons, pestier, pinenes, pinners, pinones, pintoes, pioneer, poetise, pointer, pointes, pontine, posteen, postern, poteens, present, pronest, prostie, protein, pterins, reopens, repents, repines, repoint, reposit, respite, riposte, ropiest, serpent, spinner, tenpins, tropine, and tropins — 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 pretension turns up 151 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, intern, opener, person, points, and ponies. For points, the strongest plays are espoir, esprit, instep, netops, opener, opines, orpine, orpins, penner, pennes, pennis, peones, pereon, pernio, person, pester, peters, pinene, pinner, pinons, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, pointe, points, poiser, ponent, ponies, pontes, porins, posier, poster, postie, postin, poteen, potsie, preens, preset, presto, priest, prints, prions, prison, prones, prosit, protei, pterin, reopen, repent, repine, repins, repose, repost, repots, respot, ripens, ripest, ripost, sitrep, sniper, sopite, spinet, spinor, spinto, sprent, sprint, sprite, stoper, stripe, tenpin, topees, topers, tripes, tripos, tropes, and tropin — 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 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise, notes, opens, penes, penis, and poets. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, netop, opens, opine, opsin, orpin, peens, peers, peins, peise, penes, penis, penne, penni, peons, peres, peris, perse, pesto, peter, piers, pines, pinon, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pirns, piste, piton, poets, point, poise, pones, pores, porin, porns, ports, poser, posit, preen, prees, prese, prest, pries, print, prion, prise, prone, prose, prost, repin, repos, repot, ripen, ripes, estop, inept, inspo, ropes, snipe, speer, speir, spent, spier, spine, spire, spirt, spite, spore, sport, spree, sprit, steep, stipe, stirp, stope, strep, strip, strop, topee, toper, topes, topis, tripe, trips, and trope — 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 pretension produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nine, none, nope, nose, and note. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nips, nope, open, opes, opts, peen, peer, pees, pein, pens, pent, peon, pere, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, pine, pins, pint, pion, pirn, piso, pits, poet, pois, pone, pons, pore, porn, port, pose, post, pots, pree, pros, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seep, sept, sipe, snip, spin, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, tips, tope, topi, tops, trip, and trop — 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 pretension turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, nor, not, one, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ope, ops, opt, pee, pen, per, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretension plus one additional letter.
pretension 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 3-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 pretension. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pretension is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretension unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretension, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pretension 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 pretension produce 678 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 69 seven-letter words, 151 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.