Hidden inside blockader sit adblocker and blockader, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 390 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adblocker and blockader tie for the highest Scrabble score from blockader at 18 points. The top 10 of 390 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in blockader: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blockader 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 adblocker and blockader, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockader. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blockade, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blockader produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blacker and blocked. For points, the strongest plays are bedrock, blacked, and blocked — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockader turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backed, balder and barked. For points, the strongest play is backed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, adore and baked. For points, the strongest plays are black, block, and brock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blockader produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, back and bade. For points, the strongest plays are back, beck, and bock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockader turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad and bar. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kab, and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be and do. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in blockader plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blockader 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.
blockader 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.
blockader is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blockader unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adblocker and blockader, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blockader 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 blockader produce 390 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.