Hidden inside spades sit passed and spades, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
passed and spades tie for the highest Scrabble score from spades at 9 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in spades: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spades itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passed. For points, the strongest plays are passed and spades — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spades. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are spade and spaed, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spades produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, pads, pass, peas, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, pads, peds, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spades turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, ass, pad, pea, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in spades and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
spades 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for spades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
spades is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are passed and spades, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spades 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 spades produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.