Hidden inside wardens sit wanders and wardens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wanders and wardens tie for the highest Scrabble score from wardens at 11 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in wardens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wardens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wanders. For points, the strongest plays are wanders and wardens — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wardens turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer, wander, and warned. For points, the strongest plays are dewans, dewars, snawed, waders, wander, warden, and warned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wardens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dawns, dears, drawn, draws, earns, and nerds. For points, the strongest plays are awned, dawen, dawns, dewan, dewar, drawn, draws, sawed, sward, wader, wades, wands, waned, wards, wared, and wends — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wardens produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dawn, dear, draw, drew, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are awed, dawn, daws, dews, draw, drew, wade, wads, wand, ward, weds, and wend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wardens turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, are, ear, end, era, and new. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wardens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 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 wardens 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.
wardens 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 1-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 wardens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
wardens is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wardens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wanders and wardens, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wardens 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 wardens produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.