Hidden inside dazed sit adzed and dazed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adzed and dazed tie for the highest Scrabble score from dazed at 16 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in dazed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dazed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adzed and dazed, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dazed and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
dazed 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 dazed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for dazed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
dazed is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dazed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adzed and dazed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dazed 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 dazed produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.