commends needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
commends is the highest-scoring word from commends, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in commends — and it is commends itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling commends produces exactly one seven-letter word: commend. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, comes and cones. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commends produces 46 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 commends turns up 41 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me and no. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in commends and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
commends 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 commends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
commends is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing commends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is commends, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from commends 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 commends produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.