Hidden inside distance sit danciest and distance, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 358 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
danciest and distance tie for the highest Scrabble score from distance at 11 points. The top 10 of 358 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in distance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and distance itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance. For points, the strongest plays are danciest and distance — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distance produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, the strongest plays are candies, dacites, decants, descant, discant, incased, and scanted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distance turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dances and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, cadent, cadets, canids, canted, cisted, cnidae, dacite, dances, decani, decans, decant, dicast, edicts, and nicads — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cents, dance, dates, and dices. For points, the strongest plays are acids, acned, acted, asdic, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, caned, canid, cased, cedis, cited, cnida, daces, dance, decan, dices, dicta, edict, nicad, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distance produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distance turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 distance and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
distance 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 eight senses for distance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
distance is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are danciest and distance, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distance 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 distance produce 358 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.