Hidden inside sentenced sit sentenced and tendences, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sentenced and tendences tie for the highest Scrabble score from sentenced at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sentenced: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sentenced 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 sentenced and tendences, each worth 12 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 sentenced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sentence. For points, the strongest play is tendence — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentenced produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are descent and scented, 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 sentenced turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decent. For points, the strongest plays are censed, decent, and secede — 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentenced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, needs, scene, scent, teens, tends, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are cedes and scend — 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 sentenced produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, ends, need, nest, nets, seed, and seen. For points, the strongest play is cede — 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 sentenced turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentenced. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sentenced plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sentenced 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.
sentenced 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sentenced is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sentenced unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sentenced and tendences, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sentenced 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 sentenced produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.