Hidden inside tenure sit neuter, retune, tenure and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
neuter, retune, tenure and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tenure at 6 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in tenure: three come from rearranging its letters, and tenure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are neuter, retune, tenure, and tureen, 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tenure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are enter, enure, rente, terne, treen, and tuner — 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 tenure produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, teen, tree, true, tune, and turn. For points, the strongest plays are erne, rent, rete, rune, runt, teen, tern, tree, true, tune, and turn — 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 tenure turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nut, run, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are ere, ern, nee, net, nut, ree, ret, rue, run, rut, tee, ten, tun, urn, and ute — 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 tenure. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, et, ne, nu, re, te, un, and ut, 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 tenure 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.
tenure 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 three senses for tenure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tenure is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tenure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are neuter, retune, tenure, and tureen, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tenure 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 tenure produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.