tendons needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tendons is the highest-scoring word from tendons, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tendons — and it is tendons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendons turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stoned and tendon, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, stone, tends, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are dents, doest, donne, dotes, nodes, nosed, noted, sonde, tends, and toned — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tendons produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, dots, ends, nest, nets, and none. For points, the strongest plays are dens, dent, does, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, ends, node, nods, odes, send, sned, teds, tend, tods, and toed — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tendons turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, net, not, one, set, and son. For points, the strongest plays are den, doe, don, dos, dot, eds, end, nod, ode, ods, sod, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tendons 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.
tendons 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tendons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tendons is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tendons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tendons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tendons 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 tendons produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.