condense needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
condense is the highest-scoring word from condense, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in condense — and it is condense itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in condense produces 3 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 encodes and seconde, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling condense turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with second. For points, the strongest plays are censed, codens, conned, encode, and second — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in condense. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cones, needs, and scene. For points, the strongest plays are cedes, coden, codes, coeds, coned, decos, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in condense produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cone, cons, does, done, ends, and need. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, cods, coed, deco, and docs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling condense turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end, one, see, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in condense. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in condense 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.
condense 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 seven senses for condense. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
condense is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing condense unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is condense, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from condense 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 condense produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.