Hidden inside attainders sit antitrades and attainders, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 733 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antitrades and attainders tie for the highest Scrabble score from attainders at 11 points. The top 10 of 733 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in attainders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attainders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antitrades and attainders, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attainders turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antitrade, attainder, sanitated and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainders. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airdates, araneids, attained and 13 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attainders produces 87 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends, dentist and distant. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including attends, dentist and distant.
Unscrambling attainders turns up 131 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, attend and diners. For points, 54 words tie at 7 points, including attend, diners and drains.
There are 199 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, areas and aside. For points, 79 words tie at 6 points, including aired, aside and dares.
Rearranging the letters in attainders produces 167 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and ants. For points, 61 words tie at 5 points, including aids, nerd and read.
Unscrambling attainders turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in attainders plus one additional letter.
attainders 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 attainders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
attainders is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attainders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antitrades and attainders, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attainders 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 attainders produce 733 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 31 eight-letter words, 87 seven-letter words, 131 six-letter words, 199 five-letter words, 167 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.