and and dan tie for the highest Scrabble score from dan at 4 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in dan: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and. For points, the strongest plays are and and dan — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dan and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
dan is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
dan is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are and and dan, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dan 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 dan produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.