Hidden inside pander sit pander and repand, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pander and repand tie for the highest Scrabble score from pander at 9 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pander: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pander 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 pander and repand, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pander. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drape, naped, padre, paned, pared, and raped, 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 pander produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, earn, near, nerd, and read. For points, the strongest plays are aped, pard, and pend — 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 pander turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ape, are, ear, end, era, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 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 pander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 pander 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.
pander 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 three senses for pander. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pander is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pander unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pander and repand, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pander 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 pander produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.