Hidden inside adulators sit adulators and laudators, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adulators and laudators tie for the highest Scrabble score from adulators at 10 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adulators: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adulators 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 adulators and laudators, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulators. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adulator, laudator, and loadstar, 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 adulators produces 7 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 daturas, radulas, and sudoral, 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 adulators turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults and altars. For points, the strongest plays are adults, datura, dorsal, doulas, douras, radula, and stroud — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, altar, autos, loads, lords, roads, and roast. For points, the strongest plays are adult, adust, aloud, darts, datos, dauts, doats, dolts, dorsa, dotal, doula, doura, douts, drats, duals, dural, duras, duros, durst, lards, lauds, loads, lords, ludos, roads, salad, sarod, sudor, tardo, toads, trads, and turds — 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 adulators produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts, auto, data, dots, dust, and lads. For points, the strongest plays are ados, auld, dals, dart, data, dato, daut, doat, dols, dolt, dors, dosa, dost, dots, dour, dout, drat, dual, duos, dura, duro, dust, lads, lard, laud, load, lord, loud, ludo, luds, odas, olds, orad, ouds, rads, road, rods, sard, soda, sold, sord, stud, surd, tads, toad, tods, told, trad, trod, turd, udos, and urds — 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 adulators turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art, dot, lad, lot, old, and our. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, dal, das, dol, dor, dos, dot, duo, lad, lud, oda, ods, old, oud, rad, rod, sad, sod, tad, tod, udo, and urd — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, 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.
Swap a single tile in adulators 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.
adulators 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 2-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 adulators. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
adulators is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adulators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adulators and laudators, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adulators 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 adulators produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.