Hidden inside tardier sit tardier and tarried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tardier and tarried tie for the highest Scrabble score from tardier at 8 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tardier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tardier 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 tardier and tarried, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tardier turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retard. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including retard, airted and arider.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, drier and tired. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including aired, drier and tired.
Rearranging the letters in tardier produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling tardier turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and are. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including aid, die and red.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tardier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tardier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tardier 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.
tardier 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tardier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tardier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tardier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tardier and tarried, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tardier 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 tardier produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.