confidante needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 416 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confidante is the highest-scoring word from confidante, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 416 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in confidante — and it is confidante itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confidante turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with confident and contained. For points, the strongest plays are confidant and confident — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidante. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are confined and financed, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidante produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient, contain, and noticed. For points, the strongest plays are confide, faciend, factoid, and fancied — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confidante turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, canned and cannot. For points, the strongest play is coifed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, dance and decaf. For points, the strongest plays are decaf and faced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidante produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, cafe and cent. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, face and fact.
Unscrambling confidante turns up 78 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including if, of and ef.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in confidante plus one additional letter.
confidante 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 confidante. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
confidante is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confidante unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confidante, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confidante 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 confidante produce 416 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.