Hidden inside altitude sit altitude and latitude, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altitude and latitude tie for the highest Scrabble score from altitude at 9 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in altitude: one comes from rearranging its letters, and altitude 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 altitude and latitude, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling altitude turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail. For points, the strongest plays are audile, dautie, detail, dilate, dilute, tailed, tauted, tilted, titled, and tuladi — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altitude. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dealt, ideal, latte, and title. For points, the strongest plays are adieu, adult, ailed, atted, audit, dealt, delta, dulia, ideal, lated, luted, tidal, tilde, and tiled — 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 altitude produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, deli, dial, diet, edit, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, auld, dale, date, daut, deal, deil, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, dita, dite, dual, duel, duet, duit, edit, idea, idle, lade, laid, laud, lead, leud, lied, lude, tide, and tied — 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 altitude turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, ate, die, due, eat, lad, and led. For points, the strongest plays are aid, dal, del, die, dit, due, dui, eld, lad, led, lid, lud, tad, and ted — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altitude. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in altitude 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.
altitude 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 three senses for altitude. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
altitude is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altitude unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altitude and latitude, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from altitude 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 altitude produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.