Hidden inside leader sit dealer and leader, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dealer and leader tie for the highest Scrabble score from leader at 7 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in leader: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leader itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: dealer and leader, worth 7 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leader. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alder, eared, elder, and lader, 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 leader produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, deer, lead, read, and real. For points, the strongest plays are dale, dare, deal, dear, deer, dele, dere, dree, lade, lard, lead, lede, read, rede, and reed — 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 leader turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, lad, led, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dal, dee, del, eld, lad, led, rad, and red — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
28 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in leader plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leader 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.
leader 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 two senses for leader. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
leader is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leader unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dealer and leader, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leader 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 leader produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.