Hidden inside tendu sit tendu and tuned, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tendu and tuned tie for the highest Scrabble score from tendu at 6 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tendu: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tendu itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuned. For points, the strongest plays are tendu and tuned — 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 tendu produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nude, tend, and tune. For points, the strongest plays are dent, duet, dune, dunt, nude, tend, and unde — 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 tendu turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, net, nut, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are den, due, dun, end, and ted — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendu. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tendu and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tendu is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
tendu is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tendu unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tendu and tuned, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tendu 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 tendu produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.