Hidden inside serpent sit penster, present, repents and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
penster, present, repents and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from serpent at 9 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in serpent: three come from rearranging its letters, and serpent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present. For points, the strongest plays are penster, present, repents, and serpent — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling serpent turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, resent, and tenser. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including pester, peters and preens.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serpent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, penes and rents. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including penes, spent and neeps.
Rearranging the letters in serpent produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pees. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pens and pets.
Unscrambling serpent turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee and pen. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including pee, pen and per.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serpent. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in serpent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in serpent and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
serpent 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 three senses for serpent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
serpent is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serpent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are penster, present, repents, and serpent, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serpent 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 serpent produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.