Unscramble LISTENER and you have 273 words, LISTENER itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. LISTENER has 4 anagrams here, ENLISTER, REENLIST, RELISTEN and SILENTER, scoring 8 like LISTENER itself. The best shorter words score 7: 21 of them, ENTRIES, STERILE and TENSILE included. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for steelirn, elinters, leinster, rsilente, reinlets, slientre or linterse? They use the same letters as LISTENER, 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 LISTENER by length: 5 with 8 letters, 21 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Every one of the 21 7-letter words made with LISTENER letters scores 7. ENTRIES, STERILE and TENSILE are everyday picks.
The 6-letter words you get when you unscramble LISTENER come to 60, each scoring 6 points. ENTIRE, LISTEN and INSERT are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 5-letter words from LISTENER score 5 points. ENTER, LINES and INTER are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 4-letter words made with LISTENER letters scores 4. LIST, LINE and REST are everyday picks.
All 51 of the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble LISTENER score 3 points. SEE, ITS and SET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LISTENER but one, change that one, and you get:
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What LISTENER means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
LISTENER works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LISTENER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 273) | 222 | 272 | 209 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
50 of the 273 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NERITES, SLENTER, SLINTER, SNIRTLE, TRENISE, NELIES, NERITE, RENIES, SEITEN, SILENE, STRENE, EISEL and 38 more. 13 of the 273 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RELISTEN, LENITES, INTELS, LENITE, STRINE, TENESI, INTEL, LITES, RESIT, ESNE, EST, TES and 1 more. 1 of the 273 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of LISTENER plus a single extra one.