Hidden inside hearten sit earthen and hearten, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HANTERE, HARENET or NEHEART and you get the same 7 letters as HEARTEN: so the words from HEARTEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
earthen and hearten tie for the highest Scrabble score from hearten at 10 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hearten: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hearten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earthen and hearten, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hearten turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including aether, anther and ethane.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, eaten and enter. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including earth, heart and there.
Rearranging the letters in hearten produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, hate and hear. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including hate, hear and heat.
Unscrambling hearten turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including hat, hen and her.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in hearten plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hearten and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hearten 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 hearten carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hearten. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hearten is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthen and hearten, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hearten 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 hearten produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.