Hidden inside scanner sit canners and scanner, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canners and scanner tie for the highest Scrabble score from scanner at 9 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in scanner: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scanner 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 canners and scanner, 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 scanner turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caners, canner, casern, cranes, nacres, and rances, 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scanner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, earns, races, saner, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acres, caner, canes, cares, carns, carse, crane, escar, nacre, narcs, races, rance, scare, scena, scran, and serac — 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 scanner produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care, cars, case, earn, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, arcs, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, case, narc, race, recs, scan, and scar — 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 scanner turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can, car, ear, era, ran, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, can, car, rec, sac, and sec — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scanner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 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 scanner 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.
scanner 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for scanner. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
scanner is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scanner unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canners and scanner, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scanner 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 scanner produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.