tempter needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tempter is the highest-scoring word from tempter, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tempter — and it is tempter itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tempter turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is temper, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter and tempt. For points, the strongest play is tempt — 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 tempter produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, temp, term, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are perm and temp — 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 tempter turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee, per, pet, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are eme, met, pee, per, pet, rem, and rep — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and pe — 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 tempter 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.
tempter 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 tempter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tempter is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tempter, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tempter 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 tempter produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.