Hidden inside alders sit alders and laders, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alders and laders tie for the highest Scrabble score from alders at 7 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in alders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alders and laders, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, deals, dears, laser, leads, and reads. For points, the strongest plays are alder, dales, dares, deals, dears, lader, lades, lards, lased, leads, rased, and reads — 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 alders produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, ears, eras, lads, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are dale, dals, dare, deal, dear, dels, elds, lade, lads, lard, lead, rads, read, reds, sade, sard, and sled — 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 alders turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, era, lad, led, and red. For points, the strongest plays are ads, dal, das, del, eds, eld, lad, led, rad, red, and sad — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alders. 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.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in alders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alders 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.
alders 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 alders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
alders is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alders and laders, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alders 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 alders produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.