Hidden inside saunterer sit renatures and saunterer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 366 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
renatures and saunterer tie for the highest Scrabble score from saunterer at 9 points. The top 10 of 366 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in saunterer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saunterer 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 renatures and saunterer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saunterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treasure. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including treasure, austerer and renature.
Rearranging the letters in saunterer produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, natures, nearest, and returns. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including eastern, natures and nearest.
Unscrambling saunterer turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and enters. For points, 71 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, easter and enters.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saunterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, earns and eaten. For points, 91 words tie at 5 points, including aunts, earns and eaten.
Rearranging the letters in saunterer produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and arts. For points, 93 words tie at 4 points, including ants, anus and arts.
Unscrambling saunterer turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 59 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saunterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, 18 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in saunterer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saunterer 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.
saunterer 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 2-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 saunterer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
saunterer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saunterer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are renatures and saunterer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saunterer 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 saunterer produce 366 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.