tempters needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tempters is the highest-scoring word from tempters, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in tempters — and it is tempters itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempters produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tempers, tempest, and tempter, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tempters turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters, street, and tempts. For points, the strongest plays are sempre, temper, and tempts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, meter and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are perms, sperm, temps, and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempters produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, pees and pets. For points, the strongest plays are perm and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tempters turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee and per. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including met, pee and per.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tempters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tempters 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.
tempters 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 tempters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tempters is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tempters, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tempters 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 tempters produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.