Hidden inside resharpen sit resharpen and sharpener, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resharpen and sharpener tie for the highest Scrabble score from resharpen at 14 points. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in resharpen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and resharpen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resharpen and sharpener, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resharpen. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rephrase and reshaper, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in resharpen produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sharper. For points, the strongest plays are harpers, heapers, peahens, reshape, sharpen, and sharper — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling resharpen turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with herpes, nearer, phrase, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are harper, heaper, herpes, peahen, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shapen, shaper, sherpa, spahee, sphene, and sphere — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resharpen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase, hears, penes, phase, saner, and shape. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, heaps, phase, raphe, shape, sharp, and sheep — 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 resharpen produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, earn, ears, ease, eras, hear, and hens. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 resharpen turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ear, era, has, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resharpen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in resharpen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in resharpen and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
resharpen is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
resharpen is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resharpen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resharpen and sharpener, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resharpen 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 resharpen produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.