Hidden inside dault is one standout: adult, a five-letter play worth 6 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DAULT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ADULT (verb), to do things characteristic of a mature individual, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
adult is the highest-scoring word from dault, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dault produces exactly one five-letter word: adult. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dault produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are auld, daut, dual, and laud, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dault and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adult, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dault 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 dault produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.