Hidden inside tendan is one standout: tanned, a six-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TENDAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TANNED (verb), < TAN, to convert hide into leather by soaking in chemicals, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
tanned is the highest-scoring word from tendan, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tendan produces exactly one six-letter word: tanned. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tendan produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, neat, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are date, dean, dent, and tend — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendan turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including and, end and tad.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tendan plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tendan 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tanned, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tendan 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 tendan produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.