Hidden inside harden sit hander and harden, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble READHN, REHAND or HAREND and you get the same 6 letters as HARDEN: so the words from HARDEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hander and harden tie for the highest Scrabble score from harden at 10 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in harden: one comes from rearranging its letters, and harden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hander and harden, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in harden produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and earn. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including hand, hard and head.
Unscrambling harden turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in harden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in harden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in harden 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.
harden 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in harden carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for harden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
harden is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing harden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hander and harden, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from harden 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 harden produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.