calender 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, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calender is the highest-scoring word from calender, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in calender — and it is calender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in calender produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaned, cleaner, cleared, declare, and learned. For points, the strongest plays are candler, cleaned, cleared, creedal, declare, enlaced, recaned, and relaced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling calender turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle, cereal, dancer, dealer, earned, leader, and leaned. For points, the strongest plays are candle, cedarn, cradle, craned, credal, dancer, decane, decare, decern, lanced, nacred, and reclad — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, clean, clear, dance, learn, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, arced, cadre, caned, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, clade, creed, dance, decal, decan, laced, and raced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in calender produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, dare, deal, dear, deer, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, cede, clad, cred, and dace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling calender turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, can, car, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calender. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in calender 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.
calender 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 two senses for calender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
calender is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is calender, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from calender 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 calender produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.