Hidden inside tended sit dented and tended, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DETNDE, NEEDTD or EEDDTN and you get the same 6 letters as TENDED: so the words from TENDED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
dented and tended tie for the highest Scrabble score from tended at 8 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tended: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tended itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tended. For points, the strongest plays are dented and tended — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tended produces exactly one five-letter word: ended. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tended produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, need, teen, and tend. For points, the strongest play is deed — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tended. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tended 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.
tended 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.
tended is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dented and tended, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tended 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 tended produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.