Hidden inside duende sit denude, dudeen, duende and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denude, dudeen, duende and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from duende at 8 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in duende: three come from rearranging its letters, and duende itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denude, dudeen, duende, and endued, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duende. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ended, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in duende produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, dude, need, and nude. For points, the strongest plays are deed and dude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling duende turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due and end. For points, the strongest play is dud — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duende. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 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 duende and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
duende 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.
duende is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duende unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denude, dudeen, duende, and endued, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from duende 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 duende produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.