Hidden inside armada sit armada and ramada, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
armada and ramada tie for the highest Scrabble score from armada at 9 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in armada: one comes from rearranging its letters, and armada 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 armada and ramada, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in armada plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in armada 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.
armada 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 one sense for armada. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
armada is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing armada unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are armada and ramada, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from armada 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 armada produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.