Unscramble RESET to get 39 words. RESET itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. 8 anagrams of RESET are on the page, ESTER, REEST and STEER included; each is 5 points. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
R1E1S1E1T1
Counting the words from RESET by length: 9 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 11 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of RESET but one, change that one, and you get:
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Add two letters to RESET:
The meaning of RESET, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RESET, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESET itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 39) | 34 | 39 | 29 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
5 of the 39 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TEERS, ERES, TEER, EE and ST. 5 of the 39 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TERES, TRES, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of RESET plus a single extra one.