Hidden inside drone sit drone, redon, and ronde, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drone, redon, and ronde tie for the highest Scrabble score from drone at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in drone: two come from rearranging its letters, and drone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drone, redon, and ronde, 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 drone produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, nerd, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are doer, done, dore, nerd, node, redo, rend, and rode — 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 drone turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor, one, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are den, doe, don, dor, end, nod, ode, red, and rod — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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.
32 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in drone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drone 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.
drone 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 seven senses for drone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
drone is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drone, redon, and ronde, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drone 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 drone produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.