endears needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
endears is the highest-scoring word from endears, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in endears — and it is endears itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling endears turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned and erased. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including earned, erased and denars.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in endears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears and deers. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including dares, dears and deers.
Rearranging the letters in endears produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deer. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including dare, dear and deer.
Unscrambling endears turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and end.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in endears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
19 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in endears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in endears 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.
endears 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 one sense for endears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
endears is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing endears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is endears, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from endears 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 endears produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.