Hidden inside errands sit darners and errands, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darners and errands tie for the highest Scrabble score from errands at 8 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in errands: one comes from rearranging its letters, and errands itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errands. For points, the strongest plays are darners and errands — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling errands turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand. For points, the strongest plays are darers, darner, denars, drears, errand, redans, sander, and snared — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in errands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, earns, nerds, reads, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are darer, dares, darns, deans, dears, denar, drear, nards, nerds, rands, rared, rased, reads, redan, rends, saned, and sedan — 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 errands produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, earn, ears, ends, eras, and near. For points, the strongest plays are ands, dans, dare, darn, dean, dear, dens, ends, nard, nerd, rads, rand, read, reds, rend, sade, sand, sard, send, and sned — 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 errands turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, are, ear, end, era, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dan, das, den, eds, end, rad, red, and sad — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in errands. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in errands 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.
errands 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 errands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
errands is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing errands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darners and errands, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from errands 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 errands produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.