Hidden inside adzes sit adzes, dazes, and zedas, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adzes, dazes, and zedas tie for the highest Scrabble score from adzes at 15 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in adzes: two come from rearranging its letters, and adzes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adzes, dazes, and zedas, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adzes produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adze, daze, zeda, and zeds, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adzes turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are adz and zed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adzes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in adzes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adzes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
adzes 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 adzes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for adzes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
adzes is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adzes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adzes, dazes, and zedas, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adzes 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 adzes produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.