Hidden inside decan sit acned, caned, dance and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
acned, caned, dance and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from decan at 8 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in decan: three come from rearranging its letters, and decan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dance. For points, the strongest plays are acned, caned, dance, and decan — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decan produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aced, cade, and dace, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decan. 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.
22 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in decan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decan 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.
decan is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
decan is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are acned, caned, dance, and decan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decan 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 decan produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.