bandit needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DANTIB, TABDIN or TANDIB and you get the same 6 letters as BANDIT: so the words from BANDIT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bandit is the highest-scoring word from bandit, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in bandit — and it is bandit itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bandit produces exactly one five-letter word: tabid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bandit produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, band, and bind. For points, the strongest plays are band and bind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bandit turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bid, dab, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bandit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bandit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bandit and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bandit 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 one sense for bandit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
bandit is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bandit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bandit, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bandit 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 bandit produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.