Hidden inside thenar sit anther and thenar, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anther and thenar tie for the highest Scrabble score from thenar at 9 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in thenar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thenar 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 anther and thenar, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thenar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth and heart. For points, the strongest plays are earth, hater, heart, neath, rathe, and thane — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thenar produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, hate, hear, heat, near, neat, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are eath, haen, haet, hant, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, hent, hern, rath, rhea, tahr, thae, than, 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 thenar turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hae, hat, hen, her, het, nah, nth, rah, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thenar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 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 thenar 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.
thenar 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 thenar carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for thenar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
thenar is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thenar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anther and thenar, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thenar 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 thenar produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.