Hidden inside slanted sit dentals and slanted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentals and slanted tie for the highest Scrabble score from slanted at 8 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in slanted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slanted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dentals and slanted, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling slanted turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dental and lasted. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including dental, lasted and deltas.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slanted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, deals and dealt. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including dates, deals and dealt.
Rearranging the letters in slanted produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, date and deal. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and ends.
Unscrambling slanted turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and end.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slanted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in slanted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slanted 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.
slanted 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 two senses for slanted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
slanted is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slanted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dentals and slanted, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slanted 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 slanted produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.