Hidden inside smartens sit sarments and smartens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 284 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sarments and smartens tie for the highest Scrabble score from smartens at 10 points. The top 10 of 284 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in smartens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smartens 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 sarments and smartens, 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 smartens produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with masters. For points, the strongest plays are martens, masters, sarment, smarten, stamens, and streams — 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 smartens turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, sanest, stares, and steams. For points, the strongest plays are aments, armets, manses, mantes, marses, marten, masers, master, maters, matres, mensas, messan, namers, ramens, ramets, remans, smarts, smears, stamen, steams, stream, and tamers — 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, mates, means, meant, meats, names, and nests. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, armet, manes, manse, mares, marse, marts, maser, mases, masse, masts, mater, mates, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, mesas, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramet, reams, reman, satem, seams, smart, smear, steam, stems, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — 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 smartens produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, arms, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are amen, arms, maes, mane, mans, mare, mars, mart, mass, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, mess, meta, name, nema, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — 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 smartens turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, arm, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, man, mar, mas, mat, men, mes, met, nam, ram, rem, and tam — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smartens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 smartens 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.
smartens 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.
smartens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smartens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sarments and smartens, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smartens 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 smartens produce 284 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.