Hidden inside adders sit adders, dreads, readds and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adders, dreads, readds and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from adders at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in adders: three come from rearranging its letters, and adders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sadder. For points, the strongest plays are adders, dreads, readds, and sadder — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dares, dears, and reads. For points, the strongest plays are adder, dared, deads, dread, readd, and redds — 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 adders produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads, dare, dead, dear, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are adds, dads, dead, 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 adders turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, are, dad, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 adders 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.
adders 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in adders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for adders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
adders is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adders, dreads, readds, and sadder, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adders 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 adders produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.