Hidden inside resistants sit antistress, resistants, and straitness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 538 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antistress, resistants, and straitness tie for the highest Scrabble score from resistants at 10 points. The top 10 of 538 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in resistants: two come from rearranging its letters, and resistants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antistress, resistants, and straitness, 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 resistants turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artsiness, resistant, straitens, tartiness, and tastiness, 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 23 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resistants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastiest. For points, the strongest plays are antsiest, artiness, artistes, artsiest, assister, instates, intreats, nastiest, nitrates, retsinas, sarsnets, satinets, sestinas, stainers, stearins, stinters, straiten, striates, tartness, tertians, titaness, transits, and tsarists — 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 resistants produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, nastier, resists, sisters, sitters, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are anestri, antsier, arsines, artiest, artiste, artists, artsies, assents, asserts, attires, entasis, estrins, inserts, instars, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, nasties, natters, nattier, nitrate, ratines, ratites, rattens, resists, retains, retinas, retints, retsina, sanseis, santirs, sarnies, sarsens, sarsnet, sassier, satinet, satires, seitans, sestina, siestas, sinters, sisters, sitters, stainer, starets, staters, statins, stearin, stinter, strains, straits, striate, strines, tanists, tansies, tassets, tassies, tasters, tastier, tertian, tinters, tisanes, transit, trasses, 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 resistants turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, assist, raises, resist, saints, sanest, and sirens. For points, the strongest plays are airest, anises, antres, arisen, arises, arsine, artist, artsie, assent, assert, assets, assist, 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, sasins, satins, satire, seitan, serais, serins, siesta, sinter, sirens, sister, sistra, sitars, sitten, sitter, snares, stains, stairs, stanes, stares, starts, stases, stasis, stater, states, statin, steins, stents, sterna, sterns, stints, strain, strait, strass, strati, stress, striae, strine, taints, tanist, tasers, tasses, 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 138 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resistants. 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, sises, 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, asses, 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 resistants produces 112 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, sass, 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 resistants 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 resistants. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in resistants plus one additional letter.
resistants 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 resistants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
resistants is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resistants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antistress, resistants, and straitness, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resistants 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 resistants produce 538 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 23 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 138 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.