transponder needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1042 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
transponder is the highest-scoring word from transponder, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1042 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in transponder — and it is transponder itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling transponder turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pardoners, predators, and teardrops, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transponder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with partners. For points, 19 words tie at 11 points, including adopters, eardrops and notepads.
Rearranging the letters in transponder produces 102 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates, errands and pardons. For points, 32 words tie at 10 points, including pardons, respond and adopter.
Unscrambling transponder turns up 212 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, adores and arrest. For points, 41 words tie at 9 points, including adopts, pardon and posted.
There are 282 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transponder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, adore and nerds. For points, 33 words tie at 8 points, including adopt, ponds and posed.
Rearranging the letters in transponder produces 257 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and arts. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including pads, pond and drop.
Unscrambling transponder turns up 120 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transponder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in transponder plus one additional letter.
transponder 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 3-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 transponder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
transponder is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transponder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is transponder, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from transponder 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 transponder produce 1042 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 34 eight-letter words, 102 seven-letter words, 212 six-letter words, 282 five-letter words, 257 four-letter words, 120 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.