Hidden inside tandems sit damnest and tandems, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damnest and tandems tie for the highest Scrabble score from tandems at 10 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tandems: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tandems itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are damnest and tandems, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tandems turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amends, demast, desman, masted, menads, and tandem, 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tandems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, dates, mates, means, meant, meats, and named. For points, the strongest plays are admen, amend, dames, damns, maned, mated, meads, menad, mends, 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 tandems produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, damn, date, east, eats, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, dams, made, mads, mead, meds, 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 tandems turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ate, eat, end, and mad. 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tandems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, 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 tandems and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tandems 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 tandems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tandems is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tandems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damnest and tandems, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tandems 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 tandems produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.