blockades needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 396 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blockades is the highest-scoring word from blockades, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 396 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in blockades — and it is blockades itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockades. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blockade, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blockades produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blocked. For points, the strongest plays are bedsock, blacked, and blocked — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockades turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backed, blades and blocks. For points, the strongest play is backed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asked, backs and baked. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including backs, black and block.
Rearranging the letters in blockades produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also and back. For points, the strongest plays are back, beck, and bock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockades turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ask and bad. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kab, and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in blockades plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blockades and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
blockades 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 six senses for blockades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
blockades is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blockades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blockades, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blockades 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 blockades produce 396 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.