Unscramble INTEREST and you have 246 words, INTEREST itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of INTEREST are on the page: INERTEST, INSETTER, STERNITE and TRIENTES, each 8 points. Among the shorter answers, 17 reach 7 points, ENTRIES, ENTIRES and ENTRIST among them. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for restinte, tinseter, stinteer, teenstir, istenter, steernit, entriets, tinteres, tintseer or teisetnr? They use the same letters as INTEREST, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from INTEREST by length: 5 with 8 letters, 17 with 7, 51 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2.
The 6-letter words you get when you unscramble INTEREST come to 51, each scoring 6 points. STREET, ENTIRE and INSERT are the familiar ones.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words from INTEREST scores 5. ENTER, TEENS and INTER are everyday picks.
The 4-letter words from INTEREST come to 60, each scoring 4 points. SITE, TEEN and TEST are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of INTEREST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with IN · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
INTEREST first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept INTEREST, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTEREST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 246) | 189 | 245 | 177 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 56 of them: INERTEST, ENTRIST, NERITES, NETTIES, TESTERN, TRENISE, ETTINS, NERITE, NETTIE, RENIES, SEITEN, STRENE and 44 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: STRINE, TENESI, TETRIS, RESIT, STENT, TEINS, TERES, ESNE, TEIN, EST, TES and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of INTEREST plus a single extra one.