candidates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 447 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candidates is the highest-scoring word from candidates, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 447 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in candidates — and it is candidates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling candidates turns up 4 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candidate. For points, the strongest plays are candidate, candidest, discanted, and distanced — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance. For points, the strongest play is candidas — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in candidates produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, the strongest plays are addicts, caddies, candida, candids, candied, and didacts — 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 candidates turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danced, dances, nicest, and stadia. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, caddis, candid, danced, didact, and disced — 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 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cents, dance, dated, and dates. 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 candidates produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, adds, aids, ants, cans, and case. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — 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 candidates turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, ads, aid, and, ant, and ate. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. 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.
candidates 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 candidates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
candidates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing candidates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is candidates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from candidates 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 candidates produce 447 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.