Hidden inside resistant sit resistant, straitens, and tartiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 507 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resistant, straitens, and tartiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from resistant at 9 points. The top 10 of 507 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in resistant: two come from rearranging its letters, and resistant 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 resistant, straitens, and tartiness, each worth 9 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 resistant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest. For points, the strongest plays are antsiest, artiness, artistes, artsiest, instates, intreats, nastiest, nitrates, retsinas, satinets, stainers, stearins, stinters, straiten, striates, tartness, tertians, titaness, and transits — 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 resistant produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, nastier, sitters, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are anestri, antsier, arsines, artiest, artiste, artists, artsies, attires, entasis, estrins, inserts, instars, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, nasties, natters, nattier, nitrate, ratines, ratites, rattens, retains, retinas, retints, retsina, santirs, sarnies, sarsnet, satinet, satires, seitans, sestina, sinters, sitters, stainer, starets, staters, statins, stearin, stinter, strains, straits, striate, strines, tanists, tansies, tasters, tastier, tertian, tinters, tisanes, transit, and tsarist — 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 resistant turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, raises, resist, saints, sanest, sirens, and sister. For points, the strongest plays are airest, anises, antres, arisen, arises, arsine, artist, artsie, assent, assert, astern, asters, attire, estrin, inerts, insert, insets, instar, inters, natter, niters, nitres, raises, ratine, ratite, ratten, resins, resist, resits, retain, retina, retint, rinses, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, santir, sarins, sarnie, sarsen, satins, satire, seitan, serais, serins, siesta, sinter, sirens, sister, sistra, sitars, sitten, sitter, snares, stains, stairs, stanes, stares, starts, stater, states, statin, steins, stents, sterna, sterns, stints, strain, strait, strati, striae, strine, taints, tanist, tasers, tasset, tassie, taster, tastes, taters, tenias, terais, testis, tetras, tetris, tineas, tinter, tisane, titans, titers, titres, trains, traits, treats, triens, trines, and triste — 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 136 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resistant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner, seats, siren, sites, stain, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are sains, saint, saner, sanes, sarin, saris, sasin, sates, satin, satis, sears, seats, sensa, senti, sents, serai, serin, setts, sines, siren, sires, sitar, sites, snare, snits, stain, stair, stane, stans, stare, stars, start, state, stats, stein, stent, stern, stets, sties, stint, stirs, stria, tains, taint, tares, tarns, tarsi, tarts, taser, tases, tasse, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, teins, tenia, tents, terai, terns, testa, tests, tetra, tetri, airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, arses, arsis, asset, aster, astir, earns, easts, entia, etnas, inert, inset, inter, irate, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts, nests, netts, niter, nites, nitre, rains, raise, ranis, rants, rases, rates, reais, reins, rents, resat, resin, resit, rests, retia, riant, rinse, risen, rises, rites, tians, tiers, tinea, tines, tints, tires, titan, titer, titre, train, trait, trans, trass, treat, tress, trets, tries, trine, trite, and tsars — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in resistant produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, earn, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ares, arie, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, ests, etas, etna, ires, naes, nare, near, neat, ness, nest, nets, nett, nite, nits, rain, rais, rani, rant, rase, rate, rats, rein, reis, rent, rest, rets, rias, rins, rise, rite, sain, sane, sans, sari, sate, sati, sear, seas, seat, seis, sent, sera, sers, seta, sets, sett, sine, sins, sire, sirs, site, sits, snit, sris, stan, star, stat, stet, stir, tain, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tart, tase, tass, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, tein, tens, tent, tern, test, tets, tian, tier, ties, tine, tins, tint, tire, tits, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling resistant turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, ens, era, ern, ers, ess, est, eta, ins, ire, its, nae, net, nit, rai, ran, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, rin, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sis, sit, sri, tae, tan, tar, tas, tat, tea, ten, tes, tet, tie, tin, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resistant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in resistant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in resistant 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.
resistant 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for resistant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
resistant is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resistant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resistant, straitens, and tartiness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resistant 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 resistant produce 507 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 136 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.