Hidden inside radars sit radars and sardar, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
radars and sardar tie for the highest Scrabble score from radars at 7 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in radars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and radars 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 radars and sardar, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in radars. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is radar, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in radars produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rads and sard, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling radars turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads and sad. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, rad, and sad — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in radars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad and da — 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 radars 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.
radars 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 radars carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for radars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
radars is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing radars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are radars and sardar, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from radars 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 radars produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.