Hidden inside companied sit companied and compendia, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
companied and compendia tie for the highest Scrabble score from companied at 16 points. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in companied: one comes from rearranging its letters, and companied itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are companied and compendia, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comedian. For points, the strongest play is pandemic — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in companied produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is compend, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companied turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camped, coined and copied. For points, the strongest plays are camped, comped, decamp, and midcap — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, dance and demon. For points, the strongest plays are campi and campo — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in companied produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, amen and came. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companied turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in companied plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in companied and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
companied 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.
companied is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing companied unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are companied and compendia, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from companied 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 companied produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.