Hidden inside damson sit damson, monads, and nomads, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damson, monads, and nomads tie for the highest Scrabble score from damson at 9 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in damson: two come from rearranging its letters, and damson 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 damson, monads, and nomads, each worth 9 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 damson. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns. For points, the strongest plays are damns, monad, and nomad — 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 damson produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, sand, and soda. For points, the strongest plays are damn, dams, doms, mads, and mods — each 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 damson turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, mad, man, sad, and son. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damson. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — 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 damson 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.
damson 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 one sense for damson. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
damson is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damson unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damson, monads, and nomads, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from damson 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 damson produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.