Hidden inside hankerers sit hankerers and harkeners, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hankerers and harkeners tie for the highest Scrabble score from hankerers at 16 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hankerers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hankerers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hankerers and harkeners, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hankerer, harkener, and hearkens, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hankerers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sneaker. For points, the strongest plays are hankers, harkens, hearken, and sharker — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hankerers turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nearer, shaken, and shrank. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including shaken, shrank and hanker.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase and hears. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including shake, shark and ankhs.
Rearranging the letters in hankerers produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears and ease. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including ankh, hake and hank.
Unscrambling hankerers turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash and ask. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and eek.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in hankerers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hankerers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hankerers 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 hankerers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hankerers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hankerers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hankerers and harkeners, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hankerers 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 hankerers produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.