Hidden inside redan sit denar and redan, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denar and redan tie for the highest Scrabble score from redan at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in redan: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denar and redan, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redan produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and earn. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including dare, dear and nerd.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
46 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in redan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redan and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
redan 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
redan is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denar and redan, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redan 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 redan produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.