Hidden inside tradesmen sit smartened and tradesmen, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 590 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
smartened and tradesmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from tradesmen at 12 points. The top 10 of 590 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tradesmen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tradesmen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are smartened and tradesmen, 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 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tradesmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mastered. For points, the strongest plays are amenders, destream, mastered, meanders, stamened, and streamed — 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 tradesmen produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern, meanest, nearest, and steamed. For points, the strongest plays are amender, damners, damnest, demeans, dements, meander, menders, reedman, remands, remated, remends, renamed, seedman, smarted, smeared, steamed, and tandems — 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 tradesmen turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dreams, dreamt, earned, easter, enters, and erased. For points, the strongest plays are adeems, amends, damner, demast, demean, dement, dermas, desman, dreams, dreamt, edemas, emends, madres, marted, masted, meated, menads, mender, mensed, merdes, metred, reamed, remade, remand, remend, seamed, tandem, teamed, and termed — 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 178 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tradesmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, damns, dares, dates, dears, deers, and dream. For points, the strongest plays are adeem, admen, amend, armed, dames, damns, deems, demes, derma, derms, drams, dream, edema, emend, madre, maned, mated, meads, meeds, menad, mends, merde, meted, named, and tamed — 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 tradesmen produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, arms, arts, made, mate, and mean. For points, the strongest plays are made, mads, mead, meds, meed, mend, dame, damn, dams, deem, deme, derm, and dram — 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 tradesmen turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tradesmen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tradesmen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tradesmen and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tradesmen 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 tradesmen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tradesmen is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tradesmen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are smartened and tradesmen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tradesmen 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 tradesmen produce 590 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 178 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.