Hidden inside compadre sit compadre and compared, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
compadre and compared tie for the highest Scrabble score from compadre at 15 points. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in compadre: one comes from rearranging its letters, and compadre itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compared. For points, the strongest plays are compadre and compared — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compadre produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compare. For points, the strongest play is cramped — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compadre turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camped. For points, the strongest plays are camped, comped, and decamp — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compadre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and cared. For points, the strongest plays are campo and cramp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compadre produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with came, camp and cape. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compadre turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compadre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and do. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in compadre plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in compadre 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.
compadre 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.
compadre is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compadre unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are compadre and compared, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from compadre 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 compadre produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.