Unscramble DARED and you have 33 words, DARED itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: ADDER, ADRED, AREDD, DREAD and READD. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
D2A1R1E1D2
Counting the words from DARED by length: 6 with 5 letters, 9 with 4, 9 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of DARED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with DA · ending in ED · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to DARED:
DARED first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DARED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 33) | 24 | 33 | 23 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: ADRED, AREDD, DRAD, ARED, EARD, RADE, ARD, DAE and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: DA.
Each word below uses all the letters of DARED and one more.