tenderest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tenderest is the highest-scoring word from tenderest, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tenderest — and it is tenderest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenderest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resented. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including resented, detentes and detester.
Rearranging the letters in tenderest produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered and steered. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including entered, steered and detente.
Unscrambling tenderest turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, enters and rented. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including desert, rented and rested.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenderest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, enter and needs. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including deers, needs and nerds.
Rearranging the letters in tenderest produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, ends and need. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including deer, ends and need.
Unscrambling tenderest turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and red. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including end, red and dee.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenderest. 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 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tenderest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tenderest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tenderest 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.
tenderest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tenderest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tenderest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tenderest 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 tenderest produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.