Hidden inside candles sit calends and candles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calends and candles tie for the highest Scrabble score from candles at 10 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in candles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and candles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candles. For points, the strongest plays are calends and candles — 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 candles turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle, cleans, and dances. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, candle, clades, dances, decals, decans, lanced, and scaled — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, dance, deals, lands, lanes, leads, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are acned, cades, caned, cased, clade, clads, daces, dance, decal, decan, laced, scald, and scend — 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 candles produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, case, deal, ends, lads, land, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, cads, clad, dace, 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 candles turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, can, end, lad, led, and sad. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candles. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in candles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
candles 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 three senses for candles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
candles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing candles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calends and candles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from candles 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 candles produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.