Hidden inside sharpener sit resharpen and sharpener, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resharpen and sharpener tie for the highest Scrabble score from sharpener at 14 points. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sharpener: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sharpener 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 resharpen and sharpener, each worth 14 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 sharpener. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rephrase and reshaper, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sharpener produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sharper. For points, the strongest plays are harpers, heapers, peahens, reshape, sharpen, and sharper — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sharpener turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with herpes, nearer, phrase, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are harper, heaper, herpes, peahen, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shapen, shaper, sherpa, spahee, sphene, and sphere — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sharpener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase, hears, penes, phase, saner, and shape. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, heaps, phase, raphe, shape, sharp, and sheep — 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 sharpener produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, earn, ears, ease, eras, hear, and hens. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 sharpener turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ear, era, has, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sharpener. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 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 sharpener plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sharpener 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.
sharpener 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for sharpener. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sharpener is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sharpener unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resharpen and sharpener, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sharpener 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 sharpener produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.