riddances needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 435 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
riddances is the highest-scoring word from riddances, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 435 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in riddances — and it is riddances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddances. 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 riddances produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, dancers, and drained. For points, the strongest plays are caddies, candids, candied, and discard — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling riddances turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danced, dancer and dances. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including danced, caddie and caddis.
There are 133 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aired and aside. For points, the strongest play is diced — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in riddances produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, adds and aids. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including acid, card and dice.
Unscrambling riddances turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and aid. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riddances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
Swap a single tile in riddances and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
riddances 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 riddances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
riddances is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riddances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is riddances, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from riddances 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 riddances produce 435 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 133 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.