responds needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responds is the highest-scoring word from responds, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in responds — and it is responds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in responds produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons and respond. For points, the strongest plays are pernods, ponders, and respond — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responds turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with person and spends. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including spends, dopers and pedros.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dress, drops and nerds. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including drops, ponds and posed.
Rearranging the letters in responds produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and drop. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including drop, pond and deps.
Unscrambling responds turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor and one. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in responds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in responds and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
responds 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 responds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
responds is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responds 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 responds produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.