dampens needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dampens is the highest-scoring word from dampens, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in dampens — and it is dampens itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dampens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, means and named. For points, the strongest plays are amped and damps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dampens produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, apes and damn. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dampens turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dampens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in dampens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dampens and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dampens 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 seven senses for dampens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dampens is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dampens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dampens, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dampens 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 dampens produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.