Hidden inside straighten sit shattering and straighten, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 918 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shattering and straighten tie for the highest Scrabble score from straighten at 14 points. The top 10 of 918 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in straighten: one comes from rearranging its letters, and straighten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: shattering and straighten, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straighten turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gnathites, hangriest, ingathers, and threating, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straighten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, hearings, starting, straight, strength, trashing, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are earthing, gahnites, gnathite, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heatings, ingather, rightest, sharting, shearing, straight, strength, tightens, and trashing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in straighten produces 116 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atheist, erasing, gathers, hearing, heating, nastier, and ratings. For points, the strongest plays are gahnite, garnish, gathers, hangers, hasting, hatting, hearing, heating, hegaris, hegiras, hingers, nighest, rehangs, resight, sharing, sighter, stengah, tighten, and tighter — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straighten turns up 174 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, artist, easing, eating, gather, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are aright, ashing, eights, garish, garths, gasher, gather, geisha, gerahs, girths, griths, haeing, hanger, haring, hating, hegari, hegira, hinger, hinges, neighs, nigher, nights, rehang, rights, sigher, thangs, thegns, things, and tights — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 229 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straighten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner, share, shier, shine, shirt, and sight. For points, the strongest plays are sangh, sight, ahing, eight, garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, girsh, girth, gnash, grith, hangs, hinge, neigh, nighs, night, right, thang, thegn, thing, and tight — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in straighten produces 215 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, argh, arts, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, ghis, hags, hang, nigh, shag, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling straighten turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ash, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straighten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in straighten plus one additional letter.
straighten 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 six senses for straighten. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
straighten is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing straighten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shattering and straighten, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from straighten 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 straighten produce 918 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 38 eight-letter words, 116 seven-letter words, 174 six-letter words, 229 five-letter words, 215 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.