andantes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
andantes is the highest-scoring word from andantes, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in andantes — and it is andantes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in andantes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are andante, ansated, and stanned, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in andantes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, stand, and tends. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including dates, stand and tends.
Rearranging the letters in andantes produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, data and date. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including data, date and ends.
Unscrambling andantes turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and end.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in andantes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in andantes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in andantes 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.
andantes 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for andantes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
andantes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing andantes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is andantes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from andantes 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 andantes produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.