Hidden inside entire sit entire, retine, and triene, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entire, retine, and triene tie for the highest Scrabble score from entire at 6 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in entire: two come from rearranging its letters, and entire itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire. For points, the strongest plays are entire, retine, and triene — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are enter, inert, inter, niter, nitre, rente, retie, terne, treen, and trine — 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 entire produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, teen, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are erne, nite, rein, rent, rete, rite, teen, tein, tern, tier, tine, tire, and tree — 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 entire turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ern, ire, nee, net, nit, ree, rei, ret, rin, tee, ten, tie, and tin — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, et, in, it, ne, re, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in entire plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in entire and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
entire 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for entire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
entire is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entire, retine, and triene, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from entire 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 entire produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.