dividend needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dividend is the highest-scoring word from dividend, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in dividend — and it is dividend itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dividend produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: divided, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dividend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined and dived. For points, the strongest play is dived — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dividend produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died, dine, dive, and vein. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and vend.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in dividend plus one additional letter.
dividend 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 three senses for dividend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
dividend is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dividend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dividend, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dividend 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 dividend produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.