syndicates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 613 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
syndicates is the highest-scoring word from syndicates, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 613 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in syndicates — and it is syndicates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling syndicates turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distances. For points, the strongest plays are asyndetic, ecdysiast, 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 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syndicates. 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 syndicates produces 53 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, ecdysis, edacity, and syndics — 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 syndicates turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dances, nicest, saints, sanest, scents, stains, and stands. 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 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syndicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, sands, scent, seats, sends, sides, and since. 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 syndicates produces 161 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 syndicates turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, any, and ass. 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 syndicates. 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.
syndicates 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 syndicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
syndicates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing syndicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is syndicates, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from syndicates 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 syndicates produce 613 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.