Hidden inside attainder sit antitrade and attainder, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in attainder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attainder 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 antitrade and attainder, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attained and nitrated, 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 attainder produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trained. For points, the strongest plays are airdate, antired, araneid, attired, detrain, radiant, radiate, tainted, tiaraed, trained, and trident — 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 attainder turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend and rained. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, airted, ardent, attend, denari, detain, nidate, radian, rained, ranted, ratted, rident, tarted, tetrad, tinder, tinted, tirade, and trined — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, tired, trade, train, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, anted, atted, dater, deair, denar, derat, dinar, diner, drain, ident, irade, nadir, naiad, ranid, rated, redan, redia, tared, teind, tined, tired, trade, tread, trend, triad, and tried — 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 attainder produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare, data, date, dear, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, darn, dart, data, date, dean, dear, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, edit, idea, ired, nada, nard, nerd, nide, raid, rand, read, rend, ride, rind, tend, tide, tied, 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 attainder turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, end, rad, red, rid, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 attainder plus one additional letter.
attainder appears in the word lists that Scrabble and Words With Friends validate against, so the rack is 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 attainder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
attainder is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attainder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antitrade and attainder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attainder 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 attainder produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.
The anagram solver inside UnscrambleX compares attainder against the dictionaries used by Scrabble, Words With Friends, Word Jumble, and Text Twist, keeps every arrangement those dictionaries contain, and sorts the confirmed words by tile score. That sorting step is why antitrade and attainder appear at the top of the results. A word on this page is a legal play in Scrabble and Words With Friends, not a letter combination that only looks like a word.
Unscrambling attainder produces two kinds of plays in Scrabble and Words With Friends: one high-scoring word, and one short word that fits a crowded board.
The high-scoring play is antitrade. The short plays are aa and ad, and they cover the turns when the board leaves no open line long enough for the bigger word.
The score gap is exact: the lowest-scoring word from these letters earns 2 points in Scrabble and the highest-scoring word earns 10 points. The letters are identical in both cases, so the board decides the value of the turn.
UnscrambleX lists every word from these letters with its Scrabble score and its Words With Friends score, so the choice between points and board position is made from numbers instead of memory.
The results list works as a vocabulary drill for Scrabble and Words With Friends players. Cover the list, rearrange attainder in your head, and count how many of the 269 words you find before you check the answers.
Experienced players find the long words such as antitrade and attainder without help. The short words are the ones that go unnoticed, and short words decide close games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Text Twist.
Repeat the drill on a few letter sets each day. Vowel positions, common endings such as -ed and -ing, and high-value tiles become recognisable without an unscrambler.
Unscrambling adds words that reading never supplies. No Scrabble player opens a dictionary to look for aa, and the word enters a playable vocabulary only because a results list produced it.
Spelling accuracy improves at the same time. Building antitrade from loose tiles forces one letter order and returns a correct or incorrect verdict inside the same move, which is faster feedback than a spelling test. Plays from attainder range from 2 to 10 points in Scrabble, so every turn also asks a scoring question: take the points now, or keep the flexible tiles for the next turn.
Words assembled from tiles are remembered better than words only read, and timed games such as Text Twist and Word Jumble reward that recall directly.