bandages needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bandages is the highest-scoring word from bandages, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bandages — and it is bandages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bandages produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agendas. For points, the strongest plays are bandage and sandbag — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bandages turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agenda, badges, and banged. For points, the strongest plays are badges, banged, and debags — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bandages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badge, bands and bangs. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, and debag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bandages produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and bade. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including bade, bags and band.
Unscrambling bandages turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and and. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bag and bed.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bandages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in bandages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bandages 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.
bandages 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for bandages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bandages is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bandages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bandages, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bandages 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 bandages produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.