Hidden inside trades sit daters, derats, stared and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
daters, derats, stared and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from trades at 7 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in trades: four come from rearranging its letters, and trades itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stared and trades. For points, the strongest plays are daters, derats, stared, trades, and treads — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, rates, reads, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, derat, drats, drest, rased, rated, reads, sated, stade, stead, tared, tased, trade, trads, tread, and tsade — 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 trades produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, drat, rads, read, reds, sade, sard, tads, teds, and trad — 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 trades turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, eds, rad, red, sad, tad, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
46 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in trades plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trades 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.
trades 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in trades carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record twelve senses for trades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
trades is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are daters, derats, stared, trades, and treads, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trades 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 trades produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.