Hidden inside bandies sit bandies and basined, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bandies and basined tie for the highest Scrabble score from bandies at 10 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bandies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bandies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bandies and basined, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bandies turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abides and biased, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bandies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, bands, based, beans, bends, binds, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are abide, bands, baned, based, beads, bends, bides, binds, and sabed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bandies produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, bade, band, bans, base, bean, and beds. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, band, bead, beds, bend, bide, bids, bind, dabs, debs, and dibs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bandies turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, bad, ban, bed, and bid. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bid, dab, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bandies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, be, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bandies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bandies 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 bandies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bandies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bandies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bandies and basined, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bandies 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 bandies produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.