calenders needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 491 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calenders is the highest-scoring word from calenders, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 491 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in calenders — and it is calenders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaners, cleansed, and declares. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including cleansed, declares and ascender.
Rearranging the letters in calenders produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candles, cereals and cleaned. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including candles, cleaned and cleared.
Unscrambling calenders turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle, ceased and cereal. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including candle, ceased and dancer.
There are 136 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared and cares. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including cards, cared and dance.
Rearranging the letters in calenders produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, card and care. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including card, aced and cade.
Unscrambling calenders turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in calenders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calenders 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.
calenders 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 calenders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
calenders is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calenders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is calenders, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from calenders 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 calenders produce 491 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 136 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.