dastards needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dastards is the highest-scoring word from dastards, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in dastards — and it is dastards itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dastards produces exactly one seven-letter word: dastard. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dastards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stars. For points, the strongest play is dadas — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dastards produces 16 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 dastards turns up 17 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.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dastards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad and da — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dastards plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dastards and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
dastards 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 dastards carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for dastards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
dastards is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dastards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dastards, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dastards 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 dastards produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.