Unscramble SORBENTS and you have 241 words, SORBENTS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 9 points, STROBES, SORBENT and BESORTS among them. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SORBENTS split into 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 44 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 50 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Of the 44 6-letter words made with SORBENTS letters, 14 score 8 points, the group's best. STORES, SENSOR and STONES are the ones most people know.
22 of 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SORBENTS tie at 7 points; none scores more. STORE, NOTES and STONE will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words from SORBENTS, the top score is 6, reached by 28. BEST, NOTE and REST are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SORBENTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SO · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
What SORBENTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SORBENTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORBENTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 241) | 194 | 241 | 182 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BESORTS, BRETONS, BESORT, BETOSS, BOSSET, BRETON, BOETS, BOTES, SNEBS, BOET, BORS, BOTE and 35 more, 47 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BENTOS, BOSSER, BENTO, SORTES, BES, RENOS, SENTS, ESTS, RENO, EST, TES and TE, 12 in all.
These 3 words take every letter of SORBENTS plus a single extra one.