Hidden inside restrained sit irredentas and restrained, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 897 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
irredentas and restrained tie for the highest Scrabble score from restrained at 11 points. The top 10 of 897 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in restrained: one comes from rearranging its letters, and restrained itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restrained. For points, the strongest plays are irredentas and restrained — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling restrained turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dentaries, detainers, dreariest and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restrained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested, readiest and resident. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including arrested, readiest and resident.
Rearranging the letters in restrained produces 127 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern and entries. For points, 76 words tie at 8 points, including dearest, errands and instead.
Unscrambling restrained turns up 208 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer and denies. For points, 107 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, denies and desert.
There are 225 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restrained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 102 words tie at 6 points, including aired, aside and dares.
Rearranging the letters in restrained produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and ants. For points, 71 words tie at 5 points, including aids, need and nerd.
Unscrambling restrained turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restrained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in restrained plus one additional letter.
restrained 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 restrained. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
restrained is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restrained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are irredentas and restrained, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restrained 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 restrained produce 897 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 47 eight-letter words, 127 seven-letter words, 208 six-letter words, 225 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.