Unscramble TENSE and you have 42 words, TENSE itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. TENSE has 6 anagrams here, ETENS, NETES, SENTE, STEEN, TEENS and TENES, scoring 5 like TENSE itself. Among the shorter answers, 16 reach 4 points, TEEN, SEEN and SENT among them. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from TENSE split into 7 with 5 letters, 16 with 4, 12 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Trade one tile of TENSE for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with TE · ending in SE · all 5-letter words
The meaning of TENSE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TENSE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TENSE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 27 | 42 | 23 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 15 of them: ETENS, NETES, STEEN, TENES, ENES, ENTS, ETEN, NETE, SNEE, STEN, TENE, EEN and 3 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: ESNE, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of TENSE plus a single extra one.