tendencies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tendencies is the highest-scoring word from tendencies, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tendencies — and it is tendencies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendencies turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are desinence, sentenced, and tendences, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neediest and sentence. For points, the strongest plays are incensed, incented, indecent, and tendence — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tendencies produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intends and intense. For points, the strongest plays are deceits, descent, enticed, and scented — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tendencies turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decent, denies, intend, nicest, nieces, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are censed, cisted, deceit, decent, deices, edenic, edicts, and secede — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, dices, diets, dines, edits, needs, and niece. For points, the strongest plays are cedes, cedis, cited, deice, dices, edict, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tendencies produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, dice, dies, diet, dine, edit, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, dice, disc, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tendencies turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, ids, its, net, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in tendencies plus one additional letter.
tendencies 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for tendencies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tendencies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tendencies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tendencies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tendencies 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 tendencies produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.