Hidden inside dawdles sit dawdles, swaddle, and waddles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dawdles, swaddle, and waddles tie for the highest Scrabble score from dawdles at 12 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in dawdles: two come from rearranging its letters, and dawdles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dawdles, swaddle, 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 dawdles turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dawdle and waddle, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals 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 dawdles produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads, dead, deal, lads, laws, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are awed, daws, dews, lewd, wade, wads, 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 dawdles turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, dad, lad, law, led, and sad. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdles. 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.
Swap a single tile in dawdles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dawdles 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 three senses for dawdles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dawdles is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dawdles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dawdles, swaddle, and waddles, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dawdles 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 dawdles produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.