candidate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candidate is the highest-scoring word from candidate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in candidate — and it is candidate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in candidate produces 4 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 candida and candied, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling candidate turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danced. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, candid, danced, and didact — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candidate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, dance, dated, and dined. For points, the strongest play is diced — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in candidate produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, cent, data, date, dead, dice, and died. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, cedi, dace, dice, and iced — 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 candidate turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, aid, and, ant, ate, and can. 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candidate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in candidate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in candidate 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.
candidate 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 two senses for candidate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
candidate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing candidate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is candidate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from candidate 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 candidate produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.