adamance 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, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adamance is the highest-scoring word from adamance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in adamance — and it is adamance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling adamance turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anadem and maenad, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adamance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dance and named. For points, the strongest play is maced — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adamance produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, came, damn, made, mean, and name. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, and mace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adamance turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, can, end, mad, man, and men. For points, the strongest plays are cam and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adamance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in adamance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adamance 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.
adamance 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 one sense for adamance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
adamance is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adamance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adamance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from adamance 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 adamance produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.