tankard needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tankard is the highest-scoring word from tankard, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tankard — and it is tankard itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tankard produces exactly one six-letter word: kantar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tankard. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: drank, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tankard produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dark, data, and tank. For points, the strongest plays are dank and dark — 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 tankard turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, art, ran, rat, tad, and tan. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 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 tankard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in tankard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tankard 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.
tankard 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 one sense for tankard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tankard is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tankard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tankard, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tankard 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 tankard produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.