tandem needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tandem is the highest-scoring word from tandem, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tandem — and it is tandem itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tandem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant and named. For points, the strongest plays are admen, amend, maned, mated, menad, named, and tamed — 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 tandem produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn, date, made, mate, mean, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, made, mead, and mend — 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 tandem turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ate, eat, end, mad, and man. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tandem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — 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 tandem 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.
tandem 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 three senses for tandem. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tandem is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tandem unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tandem, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tandem 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 tandem produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.