Hidden inside tension sit intones and tension, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intones and tension tie for the highest Scrabble score from tension at 7 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tension: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tension itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tension. For points, the strongest plays are intones and tension — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tension turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, the strongest plays are intone, nitons, nonets, sennit, sinnet, sonnet, tennis, tennos, tenons, and tonnes — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise, notes, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are eosin, inset, neist, neons, nines, nites, niton, noise, nones, nonet, nonis, notes, onset, senti, seton, stein, steno, stone, teins, tenno, tenon, tines, tones, and tonne — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tension produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nest, nets, nine, none, nose, and note. For points, the strongest plays are eons, inns, into, ions, neon, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, noes, none, noni, nose, note, ones, sent, sine, site, snit, snot, sone, tein, tens, ties, tine, tins, toes, tone, and tons — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tension turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, not, one, set, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ens, eon, est, inn, ins, ion, its, net, nit, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ose, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, son, sot, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, toe, and ton — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 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 tension 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.
tension 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 six senses for tension. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tension is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tension unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intones and tension, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tension 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 tension produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.