edentulous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 393 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
edentulous is the highest-scoring word from edentulous, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 393 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in edentulous — and it is edentulous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling edentulous produces exactly one nine-letter word: dentulous. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentulous. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensouled and outduels, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in edentulous produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loudest. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including loudest, delouse and denotes.
Unscrambling edentulous turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donuts, nudest and oldest. For points, 36 words tie at 7 points, including donuts, nudest and oldest.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentulous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, lends and louse. For points, 54 words tie at 6 points, including donut, lends and needs.
Rearranging the letters in edentulous produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lent and lets. For points, 63 words tie at 5 points, including lend, loud and need.
Unscrambling edentulous turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and end. For points, 25 words tie at 4 points, including dot, due and end.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in edentulous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
edentulous 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for edentulous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
edentulous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing edentulous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is edentulous, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from edentulous 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 edentulous produce 393 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.