Hidden inside damned sit damned, demand, and madden, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damned, demand, and madden tie for the highest Scrabble score from damned at 10 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in damned: two come from rearranging its letters, and damned itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damned and demand. For points, the strongest plays are damned, demand, and madden — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damned produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dead. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, made and dame.
Unscrambling damned turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and dad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in damned plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in damned 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.
damned 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 damned. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
damned is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damned, demand, and madden, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from damned 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 damned produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.