Hidden inside almudes sit almudes and medusal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
almudes and medusal tie for the highest Scrabble score from almudes at 10 points. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in almudes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and almudes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are almudes and medusal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling almudes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amused and medals. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including amused, medals and almude.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, deals and leads. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including medal, almud and dames.
Rearranging the letters in almudes produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, lads and lame. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including made, muds and dame.
Unscrambling almudes turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, due and lad. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in almudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in almudes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in almudes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
almudes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
almudes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing almudes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are almudes and medusal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from almudes 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 almudes produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.