Hidden inside dancer sit cedarn, craned, dancer and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cedarn, craned, dancer and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dancer at 9 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in dancer: three come from rearranging its letters, and dancer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dancer. For points, the strongest plays are cedarn, craned, dancer, and nacred — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dancer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, dance, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, arced, cadre, caned, cared, cedar, dance, decan, and raced — 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 dancer produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, dare, dear, earn, near, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, cred, and dace — 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 dancer turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, can, car, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dancer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 dancer 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.
dancer 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 two senses for dancer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
dancer is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dancer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cedarn, craned, dancer, and nacred, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dancer 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 dancer produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.