dastard needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dastard is the highest-scoring word from dastard, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in dastard — and it is dastard itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dastard. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dadas, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dastard produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, arts and dads. For points, the strongest plays are adds, dada, and dads — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dastard turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and art. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dastard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dastard 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.
dastard 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dastard carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for dastard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
dastard is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dastard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dastard, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dastard 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 dastard produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.