Hidden inside damen sit admen, amend, maned and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DAMEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ADMEN, AMEND, MANED, MENAD and NAMED.
admen, amend, maned and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from damen at 8 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with named. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including named, admen and amend.
Rearranging the letters in damen produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and made. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, made and dame.
Unscrambling damen turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, end and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in damen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in damen 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are admen, amend, maned, menad, and named, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from damen 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 damen produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.