Hidden inside softeners sit resoftens and softeners, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resoftens and softeners tie for the highest Scrabble score from softeners at 12 points. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in softeners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and softeners 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 resoftens and softeners, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softeners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resoften and softener, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in softeners produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forests, oftener, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are enserfs, festers, forests, fosters, frontes, oftener, and softens — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling softeners turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, forest, freest, fronts, resent, softer, and sorest. For points, the strongest plays are enserf, fester, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, freest, freons, fronts, frosts, soften, and softer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, forts, front, nests, noses, notes, and often. For points, the strongest plays are feres, ferns, fesse, fests, fetes, fetor, fonts, fores, forte, forts, fosse, frees, freon, frets, froes, frons, front, frost, often, ofter, reefs, serfs, and softs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in softeners produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fees, feet, fort, free, nest, nets, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are efts, fees, feet, fens, fere, fern, fess, fest, fete, fets, foes, fons, font, fore, fort, foss, free, fret, froe, reef, refs, reft, serf, soft, and tref — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling softeners turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, for, net, nor, not, one, and see. For points, the strongest plays are efs, eft, fee, fen, fer, fes, fet, foe, fon, for, fro, oft, and ref — each worth 6 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 softeners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, of, on, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in softeners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in softeners 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.
softeners 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 softeners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
softeners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing softeners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resoftens and softeners, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from softeners 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 softeners produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.