Hidden inside dedans sit dedans, desand, sadden and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dedans, desand, sadden and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dedans at 8 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in dedans: three come from rearranging its letters, and dedans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dedans, desand, sadden, and sanded, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedans. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deads, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dedans produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads, dead, ends, sand, sane, and send. For points, the strongest plays are adds, dads, and dead — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dedans turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, and, dad, end, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dedans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dedans and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
dedans 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
dedans is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dedans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dedans, desand, sadden, and sanded, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dedans 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 dedans produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.