durances needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
durances is the highest-scoring word from durances, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in durances — and it is durances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in durances produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dancers. For points, the strongest plays are crusade, dancers, durance, uncared, and uncased — 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 durances turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caused, cursed, dancer, dances, nursed, sacred, and scared. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, cadres, caused, cedarn, cedars, craned, crudes, cursed, dancer, dances, decans, dunces, nacred, sacred, sauced, scared, and secund — 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 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared, cares, cause, cured, cures, and curse. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, adunc, arced, cades, cadre, caned, cards, cared, cased, cedar, creds, crude, cruds, curds, cured, daces, dance, decan, duces, dunce, raced, 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 durances produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, cans, card, care, cars, case, and cues. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, cads, card, cred, crud, cuds, cued, curd, dace, duce, scad, and scud — 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 durances turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, are, can, car, cue, and due. For points, the strongest plays are cad and cud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 durances 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.
durances 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for durances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
durances is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing durances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is durances, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from durances 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 durances produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.