Hidden inside dolerite sit dolerite and loitered, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dolerite and loitered tie for the highest Scrabble score from dolerite at 9 points. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dolerite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dolerite 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 dolerite and loitered, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dolerite produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reoiled and retiled, 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 dolerite turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editor and relied. For points, the strongest plays are dieter, dotier, editor, lieder, oreide, reedit, relied, retied, retold, rioted, roiled, teredo, tiered, tirled, toiled, and triode — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dolerite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with older, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are deter, doter, droit, edile, eider, elder, elide, erode, idler, oiled, older, oldie, riled, tilde, tiled, tired, toled, treed, tried, and trode — 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 dolerite produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, diet, dirt, edit, lied, and lord. For points, the strongest plays are deer, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dere, diel, diet, diol, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, doer, doit, dole, dolt, dore, dote, dree, edit, eide, idle, idol, ired, lede, lido, lied, lode, loid, lord, olde, rede, redo, reed, ride, rode, roid, teed, tide, tied, toed, told, and trod — 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 dolerite turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, led, let, lid, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, die, dit, doe, dol, dor, dot, eld, led, lid, ode, old, red, rid, rod, ted, and tod — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dolerite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 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 dolerite 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.
dolerite 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.
dolerite is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dolerite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dolerite and loitered, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dolerite 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 dolerite produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.