Hidden inside drosera sit adorers and drosera, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adorers and drosera tie for the highest Scrabble score from drosera at 8 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drosera: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drosera 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 adorers and drosera, 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 drosera turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores and orders. For points, the strongest plays are adorer, adores, ardors, darers, dorser, drears, orders, oreads, roared, sarode, and soared — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drosera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, dares, dears, order, reads, roads, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are adore, ardor, darer, dares, dears, doers, dores, dorrs, dorsa, doser, drear, oared, order, oread, rared, rased, reads, redos, resod, roads, rodes, rosed, sarod, and sored — 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 drosera produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, does, ears, eras, rare, and read. For points, the strongest plays are ados, dare, dear, doer, does, dore, dorr, dors, dosa, dose, odas, odea, odes, orad, rads, read, redo, reds, road, rode, rods, sade, sard, soda, and sord — 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 drosera turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, era, red, rod, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, das, doe, dor, dos, eds, oda, ode, ods, rad, red, rod, sad, and sod — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drosera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
Swap a single tile in drosera 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.
drosera 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in drosera carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for drosera. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
drosera is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drosera unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adorers and drosera, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drosera 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 drosera produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.