tenth needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tenth is the highest-scoring word from tenth, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in tenth — and it is tenth itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tenth produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tent and then. For points, the strongest plays are hent, teth, and then — 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 tenth turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, net, ten, and the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, het, nth, and the — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenth. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh and he, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in tenth plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tenth and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tenth 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tenth carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for tenth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tenth is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tenth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tenth, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tenth 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 tenth produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.