Hidden inside attendee sit attendee and edentate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attendee and edentate tie for the highest Scrabble score from attendee at 9 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in attendee: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attendee itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attendee and edentate, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attendee produces 2 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 dentate and detente, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attendee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten. For points, the strongest plays are anted and atted — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attendee produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, neat and need. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including date, need and tend.
Unscrambling attendee turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including and, end and tad.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attendee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in attendee plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in attendee 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.
attendee 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 attendee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
attendee is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attendee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attendee and edentate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attendee 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 attendee produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.