Hidden inside syndicate sit asyndetic and syndicate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 470 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asyndetic and syndicate tie for the highest Scrabble score from syndicate at 15 points. The top 10 of 470 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in syndicate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and syndicate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asyndetic and syndicate, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syndicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance. For points, the strongest plays are cyanides, dynastic, and syndetic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in syndicate produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, destiny, and instead. For points, the strongest plays are cyanide, cyanids, and edacity — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling syndicate turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dances, nicest, stayed, and steady. For points, the strongest plays are cyanid, dancey, decays, synced, and syndic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syndicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, candy, cents, dance, and dates. For points, the strongest plays are acidy, candy, decay, dicey, and dicty — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in syndicate produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cays, city, cyan, cyst, syce, and sync — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling syndicate turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, any, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cay and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syndicate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, ay, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in syndicate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in syndicate 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.
syndicate 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 six senses for syndicate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
syndicate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing syndicate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asyndetic and syndicate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from syndicate 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 syndicate produce 470 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.