Hidden inside tenderer sit rerented and tenderer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rerented and tenderer tie for the highest Scrabble score from tenderer at 9 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tenderer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tenderer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rerented and tenderer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tenderer turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rented. For points, the strongest plays are needer, render, rented, and tender — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenderer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including deter, ender and erred.
Rearranging the letters in tenderer produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, need and nerd. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including deer, need and nerd.
Unscrambling tenderer turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, red, and ten. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including end, red and dee.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenderer. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tenderer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tenderer 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.
tenderer 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.
tenderer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tenderer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rerented and tenderer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tenderer 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 tenderer produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.