pretends needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretends is the highest-scoring word from pretends, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pretends — and it is pretends itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pretends produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present and pretend. For points, the strongest plays are pretend and spender — 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 pretends turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, enters, rented, resent, rested, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are pester, peters, preens, preset, repent, and sprent — 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 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, enter, needs, nerds, penes, rents, and speed. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, pends, preed, speed, and spend — each 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 pretends produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, ends, need, nerd, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, peds, peed, pend, and sped — 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 pretends turns up 32 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretends. 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 pretends 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.
pretends 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 eight senses for pretends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pretends is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretends, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pretends 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 pretends produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.