Hidden inside tendrils sit tendrils and trindles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 315 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tendrils and trindles tie for the highest Scrabble score from tendrils at 9 points. The top 10 of 315 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tendrils: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tendrils itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tendrils and trindles, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tendrils produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dentils, tendril, tinders, and trindle, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendrils turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners, driest and listed. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including diners, driest and listed.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendrils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets and diner. For points, 43 words tie at 6 points, including delis, diets and diner.
Rearranging the letters in tendrils produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and diet. For points, 45 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and diet.
Unscrambling tendrils turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including die, end and ids.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendrils. 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.
Swap a single tile in tendrils and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tendrils 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 tendrils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tendrils is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tendrils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tendrils and trindles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tendrils 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 tendrils produce 315 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.