verdant needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
verdant is the highest-scoring word from verdant, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in verdant — and it is verdant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, the strongest plays are daven, drave, raved, and vaned — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verdant produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, the strongest plays are deva and vend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling verdant turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in verdant and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
verdant 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 verdant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
verdant is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verdant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is verdant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from verdant 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 verdant produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.