Hidden inside hardened sit adherend and hardened, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adherend and hardened tie for the highest Scrabble score from hardened at 13 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hardened: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hardened 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 adherend and hardened, 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 hardened produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adhered, headend, and redhead, each 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 hardened turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned, handed, and headed. For points, the strongest plays are handed, headed, and herded — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, ended, and heard. For points, the strongest play is haded — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hardened produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dead, dear, deed, deer, earn, and hand. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, hade, haed, hand, hard, head, heed, and herd — 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 hardened turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and, are, dad, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — 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 hardened 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.
hardened 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 hardened carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for hardened. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hardened is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hardened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adherend and hardened, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hardened 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 hardened produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.