Hidden inside warden sit wander, warden, and warned, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wander, warden, and warned tie for the highest Scrabble score from warden at 10 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in warden: two come from rearranging its letters, and warden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wander and warned. For points, the strongest plays are wander, warden, and warned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawn. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including drawn, awned and dawen.
Rearranging the letters in warden produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dawn and dear. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including dawn, draw and drew.
Unscrambling warden turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in warden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in warden 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.
warden 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 warden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
warden is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wander, warden, and warned, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from warden 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 warden produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.