distances needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 474 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distances is the highest-scoring word from distances, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 474 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in distances — and it is distances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance. For points, the strongest plays are acidness, danciest, descants, discants, 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 distances produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and instead. For points, the strongest plays are ascends, candies, dacites, decants, descant, dicasts, discant, discase, dissect, 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 distances turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dances, nicest, saints, sanest, scents, stains, and stands. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, asdics, cadent, cadets, canids, canted, cisted, cnidae, dacite, dances, decani, decans, decant, dicast, edicts, nicads, and scends — 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 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cases, casts, cents, and dance. 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, discs, edict, nicad, scads, 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 distances produces 128 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 distances turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ass, 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 distances. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in distances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in distances 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.
distances 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 distances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
distances is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distances, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distances 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 distances produce 474 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.