Hidden inside candies sit candies and incased, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candies and incased tie for the highest Scrabble score from candies at 10 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in candies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and candies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies. For points, the strongest plays are candies and incased — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling candies turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dances. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, canids, cnidae, dances, decani, decans, and nicads — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in candies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aside, dance, dices, dines, ideas, and since. For points, the strongest plays are acids, acned, asdic, cades, cadis, caids, caned, canid, cased, cedis, cnida, daces, dance, decan, dices, nicad, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in candies produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids, cans, case, dice, dies, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling candies turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, can, die, end, and ice. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 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 candies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 candies 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.
candies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for candies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
candies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing candies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are candies and incased, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from candies 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 candies produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.