Hidden inside damar sit damar and drama, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damar and drama tie for the highest Scrabble score from damar at 8 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in damar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and damar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drama. For points, the strongest plays are damar and drama — 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 damar produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dram, 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 damar turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam and mad — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and am. For points, the strongest plays are am and ma — each worth 4 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 damar and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
damar 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 1-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 damar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
damar is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damar and drama, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from damar 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 damar produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.