net and ten tie for the highest Scrabble score from ten at 3 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in ten: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: net and ten, worth 3 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ten. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, et, ne, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
33 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in ten plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ten and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ten 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 three senses for ten. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 3 points on a Scrabble board:
ten is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are net and ten, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ten 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 ten produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.