sedentary 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, 517 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sedentary is the highest-scoring word from sedentary, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 517 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sedentary — and it is sedentary 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 sedentary. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are andesyte, estrayed, and yearends, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sedentary produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern, and nearest. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including deanery, dentary and strayed.
Unscrambling sedentary turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dryest and earned. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including dryest, stayed and steady.
There are 158 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedentary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including needy, ready and yards.
Rearranging the letters in sedentary produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and dare. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including days, deny and dyes.
Unscrambling sedentary turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are day, dey, dry, and dye — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedentary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sedentary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sedentary 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.
sedentary 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 sedentary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for sedentary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sedentary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sedentary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sedentary, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sedentary 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 sedentary produce 517 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 158 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.