Hidden inside drained sit dandier and drained, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dandier and drained tie for the highest Scrabble score from drained at 9 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drained: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drained itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drained. For points, the strongest plays are dandier and drained — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drained turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rained and ridden. For points, the strongest plays are dander, darned, raided, ridden, and rinded — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, dared, dined, diner, drain, and dried. For points, the strongest plays are adder, aided, dared, dined, dread, dried, nided, readd, and redid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drained produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dead, dear, died, dine, earn, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are dead, died, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drained turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid, air, and, are, dad, and did. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, and did — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. 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 drained and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
drained 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for drained. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
drained is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dandier and drained, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drained 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 drained produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.