Hidden inside tarnished sit antherids and tarnished, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 769 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antherids and tarnished tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarnished at 13 points. The top 10 of 769 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tarnished: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarnished itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antherids and tarnished, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarnished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with handiest. For points, the strongest plays are antherid, handiest, handsier, and hardiest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarnished produces 66 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with handier, hardest and instead. For points, 22 words tie at 11 points, including handier, hardest and trashed.
Unscrambling tarnished turns up 123 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths, diners and drains. For points, 25 words tie at 10 points, including deaths, shared and shined.
There are 227 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarnished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including death, hands and hated.
Rearranging the letters in tarnished produces 209 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and ants. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including dish, hand and hard.
Unscrambling tarnished turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, had, and hid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarnished. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarnished plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarnished and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tarnished 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 tarnished carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tarnished is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarnished unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antherids and tarnished, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarnished 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 tarnished produce 769 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 66 seven-letter words, 123 six-letter words, 227 five-letter words, 209 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.