Hidden inside errand sit darner and errand, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darner and errand tie for the highest Scrabble score from errand at 7 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in errand: one comes from rearranging its letters, and errand itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand. For points, the strongest plays are darner and errand — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in errand. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darer, denar, drear, rared, and redan, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in errand produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, earn, near, nerd, rare, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dare, darn, dean, dear, nard, nerd, rand, read, and rend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling errand turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, ran, and red. For points, the strongest plays are and, dan, den, end, rad, and red — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in errand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. 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 errand and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
errand 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 errand. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
errand is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing errand unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darner and errand, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from errand 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 errand produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.