pendant needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pendant is the highest-scoring word from pendant, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pendant — and it is pendant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pendant turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tanned. For points, the strongest plays are panned, panted, pedant, and pentad — 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 pendant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taped. For points, the strongest plays are adept, naped, paned, pated, and taped — 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 pendant produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, neat, tape, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are aped 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 pendant turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ape, ate, eat, end, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pendant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. 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 pendant 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.
pendant 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 3-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 pendant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pendant is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pendant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pendant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pendant 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 pendant produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.