Hidden inside altitudes sit altitudes and latitudes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 407 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altitudes and latitudes tie for the highest Scrabble score from altitudes at 10 points. The top 10 of 407 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in altitudes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and altitudes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are altitudes and latitudes, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altitudes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are altitude, latitude, and situated, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in altitudes produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are audiles, auldest, dauties, details, dilates, dilutes, dualise, dualist, duelist, saluted, slatted, slitted, statued, stilted, and tuladis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling altitudes turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, detail, duties, ladies, lasted, latest, and lattes. For points, the strongest plays are adieus, adults, aisled, audile, audist, audits, dautie, deasil, delist, deltas, desalt, detail, dilate, dilute, distal, dulias, duties, ideals, idlest, ladies, lasted, listed, lusted, sailed, salted, sauted, silted, slated, staled, stated, suited, tailed, tasted, tauted, tildes, 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 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altitudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aisle, aside, dates, deals, dealt, and delis. For points, the strongest plays are adieu, adits, adult, adust, aides, ailed, aside, atted, audit, dales, dates, dauts, deals, dealt, deils, deist, delis, delta, delts, dials, diets, ditas, dites, duals, duels, duets, duits, dulia, dulse, edits, ideal, ideas, idles, isled, lades, lased, lated, lauds, leads, leuds, ludes, luted, sated, sidle, sited, slide, slued, stade, staid, stead, stied, tased, tidal, tides, tilde, tiled, tsade, and tsadi — 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 altitudes produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, deal, deli, dial, dies, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, aids, auld, dais, dale, dals, date, daut, deal, deil, deli, dels, delt, desi, dial, diel, dies, diet, dita, dite, dits, dual, duel, dues, duet, duit, dust, edit, elds, idea, ides, idle, lade, lads, laid, laud, lead, leud, lids, lied, lude, luds, sade, sadi, said, side, sild, sled, slid, stud, sued, tads, teds, tide, tied, and used — 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 altitudes turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, due, eat, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, dal, das, del, die, dis, dit, due, dui, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, lud, sad, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altitudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, it, and us. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in altitudes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in altitudes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
altitudes 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 altitudes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
altitudes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altitudes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altitudes and latitudes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from altitudes 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 altitudes produce 407 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.