Hidden inside thenars sit anthers and thenars, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anthers and thenars tie for the highest Scrabble score from thenars at 10 points. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in thenars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thenars 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 anthers and thenars, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thenars turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including hearts, anther and earths.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thenars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, earth and hates. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including earth, hates and hears.
Rearranging the letters in thenars produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and earn. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including hate, hats and hear.
Unscrambling thenars turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thenars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
16 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in thenars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thenars 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.
thenars 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 thenars carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for thenars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
thenars is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thenars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anthers and thenars, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thenars 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 thenars produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.