Hidden inside dawdlers sit dawdlers and waddlers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dawdlers and waddlers tie for the highest Scrabble score from dawdlers at 13 points. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dawdlers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dawdlers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dawdlers and waddlers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dawdlers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladders. For points, the strongest plays are dawdler, dawdles, drawled, swaddle, swarded, wadders, waddler, and waddles — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dawdlers turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladder and sadder. For points, the strongest plays are dawdle, wadder, waddle, and warded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dares, deals, dears, draws, laser, and leads. For points, the strongest plays are dawed and waded — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dawdlers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads, dare, dead, deal, dear, and draw. For points, the strongest plays are awed, daws, dews, draw, drew, lewd, wade, wads, ward, weds, and weld — 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 dawdlers turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, are, dad, ear, era, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, and wed — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dawdlers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dawdlers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
dawdlers 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 dawdlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dawdlers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dawdlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dawdlers and waddlers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dawdlers 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 dawdlers produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.