bartends needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 359 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bartends is the highest-scoring word from bartends, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 359 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bartends — and it is bartends itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bartends produces 6 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 banders, bartend, and dabster, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bartends turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beards and brands. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including beards, brands and breads.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bands, barns and based. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including bands, based and beard.
Rearranging the letters in bartends produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and bade. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and beds.
Unscrambling bartends turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, dab, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bartends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in bartends plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bartends 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.
bartends 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.
bartends is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bartends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bartends, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bartends 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 bartends produce 359 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.