Hidden inside daunted sit daunted and undated, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ATUNEDD, DEUDANT or NAEDUTD and you get the same 7 letters as DAUNTED: so the words from DAUNTED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
daunted and undated tie for the highest Scrabble score from daunted at 9 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in daunted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and daunted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are daunted and undated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling daunted turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dauted, dunted, and undead, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in daunted produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, date and dead. For points, the strongest plays are dead, duad, and dude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling daunted turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, and dud — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daunted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in daunted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in daunted 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.
daunted 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 daunted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
daunted is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing daunted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are daunted and undated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from daunted 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 daunted produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.