abidance needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abidance is the highest-scoring word from abidance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in abidance — and it is abidance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abidance produces exactly one seven-letter word: cabined. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abidance turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acedia, cnidae, decani, and indaba, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abidance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cabin and dance. For points, the strongest play is cebid — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abidance produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, bade and band. For points, the strongest plays are banc and bice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abidance turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and bad. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abidance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in abidance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abidance and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
abidance is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for abidance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
abidance is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abidance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abidance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abidance earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in abidance produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.