confidant needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confidant is the highest-scoring word from confidant, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in confidant — and it is confidant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidant produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain. For points, the strongest play is factoid — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confidant turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest play is confit — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidant. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is finca, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidant produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, coat and coin. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including fact, foci and coft.
Unscrambling confidant turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and and. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in confidant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in confidant 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.
confidant 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 one sense for confidant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
confidant is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confidant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confidant, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confidant 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 confidant produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.