Hidden inside doubles sit bloused and doubles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bloused and doubles tie for the highest Scrabble score from doubles at 10 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in doubles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doubles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doubles. For points, the strongest plays are bloused and doubles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling doubles turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with double. For points, the strongest plays are boused and double — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doubles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blues and louse. For points, the strongest plays are blued, bodes, bolds, bused, dobes, lobed, and lubed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in doubles produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bled, blue, bold, buds, does, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bled, bode, bods, bold, buds, debs, dobe, and dubs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling doubles turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bud, bus, due, led, old, and sub. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bod, bud, deb, and dub — each worth 6 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 doubles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 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 doubles 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.
doubles 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for doubles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
doubles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doubles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bloused and doubles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doubles 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 doubles produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.