Hidden inside teenager sit generate and teenager, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
generate and teenager tie for the highest Scrabble score from teenager at 9 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in teenager: one comes from rearranging its letters, and teenager itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teenager. For points, the strongest plays are generate and teenager — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in teenager produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teenage. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including teenage, etagere and grantee.
Unscrambling teenager turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including argent, enrage and ergate.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teenager. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including agent, agree and anger.
Rearranging the letters in teenager produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gate and gene. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including gate, gene and rage.
Unscrambling teenager turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and are. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including age, gee and get.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teenager. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in teenager plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in teenager 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.
teenager 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for teenager. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
teenager is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teenager unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are generate and teenager, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teenager 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 teenager produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.