Hidden inside damper sit damper and ramped, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damper and ramped tie for the highest Scrabble score from damper at 11 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in damper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and damper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are damper and ramped, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed and dream. For points, the strongest play is amped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in damper produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, made, ramp, and read. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling damper turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, arm, ear, era, mad, and map. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — 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 damper and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
damper 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for damper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
damper is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damper and ramped, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from damper 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 damper produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.