Hidden inside calendar sit calendar and landrace, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calendar and landrace tie for the highest Scrabble score from calendar at 11 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in calendar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calendar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calendar. For points, the strongest plays are calendar and landrace — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in calendar produces 8 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 caldera, canaled, candela and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling calendar turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle and dancer. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including candle, dancer and alcade.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calendar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, clean and clear. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including cared, dance and raced.
Rearranging the letters in calendar produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, card and care. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including card, aced and cade.
Unscrambling calendar turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and can. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calendar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in calendar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calendar 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.
calendar 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 four senses for calendar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
calendar is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calendar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calendar and landrace, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calendar 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 calendar produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.