Hidden inside sentences sit senescent and sentences, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
senescent and sentences tie for the highest Scrabble score from sentences at 11 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sentences: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sentences itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sentences. For points, the strongest plays are senescent and sentences — each worth 11 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 sentences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sentence. For points, the strongest plays are centeses and sentence — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentences produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essence. For points, the strongest plays are essence and senesce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sentences turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scenes and scents. For points, the strongest plays are censes, scenes, and scents — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, nests, scene, scent, sense, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are cense, cents, cetes, scene, scent, and sects — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sentences produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, nest, nets, seen, sees, sent, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cess, cete, secs, sect, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sentences turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sentences. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, es, et, ne, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sentences plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sentences 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.
sentences 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for sentences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sentences is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sentences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are senescent and sentences, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sentences 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 sentences produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.