accents needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CACNETS, ESCANTC or SENTACC and you get the same 7 letters as ACCENTS: so the words from ACCENTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
accents is the highest-scoring word from accents, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in accents — and it is accents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in accents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents and scent. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including cents, scent and acnes.
Rearranging the letters in accents produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, the strongest play is ceca — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling accents turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in accents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in accents 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.
accents 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 seven senses for accents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
accents is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing accents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is accents, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from accents 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 accents produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.