alderflies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 630 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alderflies is the highest-scoring word from alderflies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 630 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in alderflies — and it is alderflies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alderflies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defilers, federals, fielders, and refilled, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alderflies produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealers, federal and leaders. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including federal, defiers and defiler.
Unscrambling alderflies turns up 135 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dealer and desire. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, failed and feared.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alderflies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aisle and aside. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, field and filed.
Rearranging the letters in alderflies produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and dare. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and fled.
Unscrambling alderflies turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including fed, def and dif.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alderflies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and id. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
alderflies 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 alderflies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
alderflies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alderflies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alderflies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alderflies 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 alderflies produce 630 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 135 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.