Hidden inside riddance sit candider and riddance, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candider and riddance tie for the highest Scrabble score from riddance at 12 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in riddance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and riddance itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are candider and riddance, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in riddance produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drained. For points, the strongest play is candied — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling riddance turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danced, dancer, rained, and ridden. For points, the strongest plays are caddie, candid, carded, and danced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, cared and cried. For points, the strongest play is diced — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in riddance produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and care. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including acid, card and dice.
Unscrambling riddance turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid and air. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in riddance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in riddance 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.
riddance 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 two senses for riddance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
riddance is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riddance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are candider and riddance, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from riddance 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 riddance produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.