concedes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
concedes is the highest-scoring word from concedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in concedes — and it is concedes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in concedes 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 concede and sconced, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concedes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cones, needs, and scene. For points, the strongest play is codec — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in concedes produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cone and cons. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including code, cede and cods.
Unscrambling concedes turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end and one. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concedes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in concedes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in concedes 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.
concedes 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for concedes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
concedes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing concedes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is concedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from concedes 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 concedes produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.