Hidden inside dendrites sit dendrites and distender, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 368 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dendrites and distender tie for the highest Scrabble score from dendrites at 11 points. The top 10 of 368 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in dendrites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dendrites 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 dendrites and distender, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dendrites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resident. For points, the strongest plays are dendrite, destined, reddiest, and stridden — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dendrites produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries and reddest. For points, the strongest plays are derides, desired, distend, endited, neddies, reddens, reddest, resided, tedders, teddies, and trended — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dendrites turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denied, denies, desert, desire, diners, driest, and edited. For points, the strongest plays are denied, dented, deride, dieted, dinted, eddies, edited, indeed, redden, rended, ridden, rinded, sended, tedder, and tended — 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 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dendrites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, deers, diets, dined, diner, dines, and dried. For points, the strongest plays are deeds, didst, dined, dreed, dried, ended, nided, redds, reded, redid, sided, and tided — each 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 dendrites produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, died, dies, diet, dine, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are deed, died, and redd — 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 dendrites turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, end, ids, its, net, and red. For points, the strongest play is did — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dendrites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are 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 dendrites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dendrites and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dendrites 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.
dendrites is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dendrites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dendrites and distender, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dendrites 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 dendrites produce 368 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.