Hidden inside attainder sit antitrade and attainder, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antitrade and attainder tie for the highest Scrabble score from attainder at 10 points. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in attainder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attainder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antitrade and attainder, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attained and nitrated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in attainder produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trained. For points, the strongest plays are airdate, antired, araneid, attired, detrain, radiant, radiate, tainted, tiaraed, trained, and trident — 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 attainder turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend and rained. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, airted, ardent, attend, denari, detain, nidate, radian, rained, ranted, ratted, rident, tarted, tetrad, tinder, tinted, tirade, and trined — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, tired, trade, train, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, anted, atted, dater, deair, denar, derat, dinar, diner, drain, ident, irade, nadir, naiad, ranid, rated, redan, redia, tared, teind, tined, tired, trade, tread, trend, triad, and tried — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in attainder produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare, data, date, dear, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, darn, dart, data, date, dean, dear, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, edit, idea, ired, nada, nard, nerd, nide, raid, rand, read, rend, ride, rind, tend, tide, tied, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling attainder turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, end, rad, red, rid, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in attainder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in attainder 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.
attainder 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 1-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 attainder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
attainder is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attainder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antitrade and attainder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attainder 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 attainder produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.