Hidden inside allotted sit allotted and totalled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allotted and totalled tie for the highest Scrabble score from allotted at 9 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in allotted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allotted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allotted and totalled, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allotted produces 2 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 toadlet and totaled, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allotted turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dottel, dottle, lotted, and tolled, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allotted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, latte, and total. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including dealt, aldol and allod.
Rearranging the letters in allotted produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal and doll. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and doll.
Unscrambling allotted turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ate and dot. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including dot, lad and led.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allotted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, and to. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in allotted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in allotted and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
allotted 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 allotted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
allotted is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allotted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allotted and totalled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allotted 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 allotted produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.