Hidden inside smartened sit smartened and tradesmen, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 590 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smartened and tradesmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from smartened at 12 points. The top 10 of 590 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in smartened: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smartened 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 smartened and tradesmen, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastered. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including mastered, amenders and destream.
Rearranging the letters in smartened produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern and meanest. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including steamed, amender and damners.
Unscrambling smartened turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dreams and dreamt. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including dreams, dreamt and adeems.
There are 178 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, damns and dares. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including armed, damns and dream.
Rearranging the letters in smartened produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants and arms. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including made, damn and mads.
Unscrambling smartened turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in smartened plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in smartened 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.
smartened 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.
smartened is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smartened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are smartened and tradesmen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smartened 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 smartened produce 590 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 178 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.