Hidden inside comrades sit comrades and mercados, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comrades and mercados tie for the highest Scrabble score from comrades at 13 points. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in comrades: one comes from rearranging its letters, and comrades itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comrades and mercados, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comrades produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caromed, comrade, and mercado, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comrades turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, creams and dreams. For points, the strongest play is comade — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comrades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and cards. For points, the strongest play is maced — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comrades produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, made and mode. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including scam, came and coma.
Unscrambling comrades turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comrades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in comrades plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in comrades 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.
comrades 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 2-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 comrades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
comrades is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comrades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comrades and mercados, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from comrades 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 comrades produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.