Hidden inside tentatively sit attentively and tentatively, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attentively and tentatively tie for the highest Scrabble score from tentatively at 17 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in tentatively: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tentatively itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attentively and tentatively, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling tentatively turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attentive, tentative, and ventilate, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tentatively. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are natively and venality, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tentatively produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle. For points, the strongest plays are naively, naivety, tantivy, and vilayet — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tentatively turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with native and talent. For points, the strongest plays are evenly, levity, vainly, and vanity — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tentatively. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, eaten, event, latte, leave, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are leavy, vealy, veiny, and vinyl — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tentatively produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, evil, lane, late, lean, lent, and line. For points, the strongest plays are envy, levy, navy, tivy, and viny — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tentatively turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any, ate, aye, eat, eve, and eye. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tentatively. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, ay, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
tentatively 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 tentatively. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
tentatively is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tentatively unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attentively and tentatively, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tentatively 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 tentatively produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.