Hidden inside dens sit dens, ends, send and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dens, ends, send and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dens at 5 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 four-letter words hiding in dens: three come from rearranging its letters, and dens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ends and send. For points, the strongest plays are dens, ends, send, and sned — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dens. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
31 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in dens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dens and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
dens 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.
dens is one of four four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dens, ends, send, and sned, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dens 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 dens produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.