Hidden inside adulations sit adulations and laudations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 535 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adulations and laudations tie for the highest Scrabble score from adulations at 11 points. The top 10 of 535 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in adulations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adulations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adulations and laudations, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adulations turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adulation, autodials, and laudation, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are autodial, outlands, and sudation, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adulations produces 24 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astound, daltons, dualist, indults, ladinos, landaus, outlaid, outland, outsaid, sandlot, sundial, toluids, tuladis, unloads, and unsolid, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adulations turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, donuts, insult, island, sandal, stadia, and studio. For points, the strongest plays are adonis, adults, alands, alodia, anodal, audial, audios, audist, audits, dalasi, dalton, danios, daunts, distal, donuts, doulas, dulias, indols, indult, island, ladino, landau, naiads, nudist, sandal, soland, soldan, soudan, stadia, stolid, stound, studio, suldan, toluid, tuladi, unlaid, unload, unsaid, unsold, and untold — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aunts, autos, dials, donut, lands, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are adios, adits, adult, adust, aland, aloud, audio, audit, danio, datos, daunt, dauts, dials, dinos, dints, diols, ditas, doats, doits, dolts, donas, donut, dosai, dotal, doula, douts, duals, duits, dulia, dunts, idols, indol, lands, lauds, lidos, loads, loids, ludos, nadas, naiad, nidal, nidus, nodal, nodus, odist, salad, sloid, soldi, solid, sound, staid, stand, tidal, toads, tondi, tsadi, udons, ulnad, and undos — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in adulations produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also, ants, anus, aunt, auto, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are adit, ados, aids, ands, auld, lads, laid, land, laud, lido, lids, load, loid, loud, ludo, luds, nada, nodi, nods, odas, olds, ouds, sadi, said, sand, sild, slid, soda, sold, stud, dais, dals, dans, data, dato, daut, dial, dino, dins, dint, diol, dita, dits, doat, doit, dols, dolt, dona, dons, dosa, dost, dots, dout, dual, duit, duns, dunt, duos, dust, idol, tads, toad, tods, told, udon, udos, and undo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adulations turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, dot, ids, and its. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, and, dal, dan, das, din, dis, dit, dol, don, dos, dot, dui, dun, duo, ids, lad, lid, lud, nod, oda, ods, old, oud, sad, sod, tad, tod, and udo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
adulations 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 3-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 adulations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
adulations is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adulations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adulations and laudations, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adulations 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 adulations produce 535 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.