Hidden inside sesterce sit secretes and sesterce, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
secretes and sesterce tie for the highest Scrabble score from sesterce at 10 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sesterce: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sesterce itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are secretes and sesterce, 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 sesterce produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with secrets. For points, the strongest plays are creeses, cresset, resects, secrete, and secrets — 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 sesterce turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recess, secret, and steers. For points, the strongest plays are certes, creese, crests, erects, recess, resect, screes, secret, and terces — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sesterce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are ceres, certs, cetes, cress, crest, erect, scree, sects, and terce — 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 sesterce produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sees, sets, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cert, cess, cete, recs, 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 sesterce turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, 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 sesterce. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, et, re, 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.
Swap a single tile in sesterce and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sesterce 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.
sesterce is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sesterce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are secretes and sesterce, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sesterce 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 sesterce produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.