Hidden inside distanced sit candidest, discanted, and distanced, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 398 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candidest, discanted, and distanced tie for the highest Scrabble score from distanced at 13 points. The top 10 of 398 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in distanced: two come from rearranging its letters, and distanced itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are candidest, discanted, and distanced, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distanced. 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 distanced produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, the strongest plays are addicts, caddies, candids, candied, and didacts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distanced turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danced, dances, and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are addict, caddie, caddis, candid, danced, didact, and disced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distanced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cents, dance, dated, and dates. For points, the strongest play is diced — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distanced produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, adds, aids, ants, cans, and case. 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 distanced turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, add, ads, aid, and, ant, and ate. 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 distanced. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in distanced plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in distanced and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
distanced 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.
distanced is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distanced unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are candidest, discanted, and distanced, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distanced 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 distanced produce 398 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.