commend needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MEMNODC, DCMOMEN or MNMCODE and you get the same 7 letters as COMMEND: so the words from COMMEND listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
commend is the highest-scoring word from commend, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in commend — and it is commend itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commend produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come and cone. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commend turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end and men. For points, the strongest plays are mem, moc, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, and on. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in commend plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in commend 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.
commend 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for commend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
commend is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing commend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is commend, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from commend 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 commend produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.