addresses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
addresses is the highest-scoring word from addresses, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in addresses — and it is addresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in addresses produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with address, dressed, and dresses. For points, the strongest plays are address and dressed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling addresses turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erased, erases, and sadder. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including sadder, adders and deader.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in addresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, dared and dares. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dared, deeds and adder.
Rearranging the letters in addresses produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads and dare. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including adds, dads and dead.
Unscrambling addresses turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and are. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in addresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in addresses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in addresses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
addresses 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in addresses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eighteen senses for addresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
addresses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing addresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is addresses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from addresses 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 addresses produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.