Hidden inside drosses sit dossers and drosses, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dossers and drosses tie for the highest Scrabble score from drosses at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drosses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drosses 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 dossers and drosses, 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 drosses turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dosers, dosser, dosses, and resods, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drosses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dress and roses. For points, the strongest plays are doers, dores, doser, doses, dress, dross, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, sords, 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 drosses produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, rode, rods, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are doer, does, dore, dors, dose, doss, odes, redo, reds, rode, rods, sods, 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 drosses turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red and rod. For points, the strongest plays are doe, dor, dos, eds, ode, ods, red, rod, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drosses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and so. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in drosses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drosses 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.
drosses 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 drosses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for drosses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
drosses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drosses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dossers and drosses, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drosses 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 drosses produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.