Hidden inside alder sit alder and lader, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alder and lader tie for the highest Scrabble score from alder at 6 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in alder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alder and lader, 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 alder produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, lead, read, and real. For points, the strongest plays are dale, dare, deal, dear, lade, lard, lead, and read — 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 alder turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, lad, led, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dal, del, eld, lad, led, rad, and red — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. 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.
46 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in alder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alder and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
alder 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 two senses for alder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
alder is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alder and lader, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alder 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 alder produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.