Hidden inside renting sit renting and ringent, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
renting and ringent tie for the highest Scrabble score from renting at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in renting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and renting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with renting. For points, the strongest plays are renting and ringent — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling renting turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern. For points, the strongest plays are engirt and ginner — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inner and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are reign, renig, tiger, and tinge — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in renting produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nine, rent, ring, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are gent, gien, girn, girt, gite, grin, grit, ring, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling renting turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, net, rig, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gen, get, gie, gin, git, neg, reg, rig, and teg — each worth 4 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 renting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 renting 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.
renting 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 one sense for renting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
renting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing renting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are renting and ringent, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from renting 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 renting produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.