Hidden inside friended sit defriend and friended, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defriend and friended tie for the highest Scrabble score from friended at 13 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in friended: one comes from rearranging its letters, and friended itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defriend and friended, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in friended produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: defined, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling friended turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend, define, denied, friend, indeed, and ridden. For points, the strongest plays are defend, defied, and fended — each worth 11 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 friended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined, diner, dried, ended, finer, fired, and fried. For points, the strongest plays are defer, fiend, fined, fired, freed, fried, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in friended produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, died, dine, feed, find, and fine. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feed, fend, and find — 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 friended turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, end, fed, fee, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 friended 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.
friended 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.
friended is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defriend and friended, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friended 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 friended produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.