confidants 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, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confidants is the highest-scoring word from confidants, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in confidants — and it is confidants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confidants produces exactly one nine-letter word: confidant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contains. For points, the strongest play is factoids — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidants produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, contain, and nations. For points, the strongest play is factoid — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confidants turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, casino, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are confit, fiasco, and fincas — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, coast and coats. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, facts, and finca — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confidants produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including fact, foci and cafs.
Unscrambling confidants turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confidants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in confidants plus one additional letter.
confidants 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 confidants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
confidants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confidants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confidants, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confidants 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 confidants produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.