Hidden inside editorials sit editorials and idolatries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 961 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
editorials and idolatries tie for the highest Scrabble score from editorials at 11 points. The top 10 of 961 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in editorials: one comes from rearranging its letters, and editorials itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are editorials and idolatries, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling editorials turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are editorial, estradiol, idolaters, steroidal, and trailside, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editorials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolated. For points, the strongest plays are asteroid, darioles, delators, diastole, dilaters, dilators, diorites, idealist, idolater, idoliser, isolated, lardiest, leotards, lodestar, redtails, sodalite, stolider, and tailored — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in editorials produces 76 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dairies, details, diaries, editors, isolate, saltier, and soldier. For points, the strongest plays are airside, aridest, astride, dailies, dairies, dariole, dartles, delator, deliria, derails, details, dialers, dialist, diaries, diarist, diaster, dilater, dilates, dilator, diorite, dirties, disrate, ditsier, doilies, editors, idolise, iodates, isolead, leotard, liaised, loaders, oldster, ordeals, radioes, redials, redtail, reloads, roadies, roasted, sedilia, sialoid, solated, soldier, solider, sortied, staider, steroid, storied, tardies, tidiers, tirades, toadies, torsade, trailed, trialed, and triodes — 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 editorials turns up 173 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, alerts, alters, detail, driest, editor, and idiots. For points, the strongest plays are adores, adroit, aiders, airted, aisled, alders, aldose, ariled, aroids, dartle, daters, deairs, deasil, delist, deltas, derail, derats, desalt, detail, dialer, dilate, direst, distal, distil, dories, dorsal, dorsel, doters, dotier, drails, driest, droits, editor, eidola, ideals, idiots, idlers, idlest, iliads, iodate, iodise, irades, irides, irised, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, lasted, liards, lidars, listed, loader, oldest, oldies, orated, ordeal, oreads, radios, railed, raised, redial, redias, relaid, reload, resaid, resold, retold, rioted, roadie, roiled, sailed, salted, sarode, sialid, sidler, siloed, silted, slated, slider, soared, soiled, solder, solidi, sorted, staled, stared, stoled, stolid, stored, stride, strode, tailed, teiids, tidier, tidies, tildes, tirade, tirled, todies, toiled, trades, treads, triads, and triode — 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 271 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editorials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, aisle, alert, alter, aside, and roads. For points, the strongest plays are adios, adits, adore, aider, aides, ailed, aired, alder, aroid, aside, roads, rodes, roids, rosed, sarod, sated, sidle, sired, sited, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, solid, sored, stade, staid, stead, stied, tardo, tared, tased, teiid, dales, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, deair, deals, dealt, dears, deils, deist, delis, delta, delts, derat, dials, diets, diols, dirls, dirts, ditas, dites, doats, doers, doest, doits, doles, dolts, dores, dorsa, dosai, doser, dotal, doter, dotes, drail, drats, drest, dries, droit, edits, eidos, ideal, ideas, idiot, idler, idles, idols, iliad, irade, irids, isled, lader, lades, laird, lards, lased, lated, leads, liard, lidar, lidos, loads, lodes, loids, lords, oared, odist, oidia, oiled, older, oldie, oread, radii, radio, raids, rased, rated, reads, redia, redos, resid, resod, rides, riled, tidal, tides, tilde, tiled, tired, toads, toled, trade, trads, tread, triad, tried, trode, tsade, and tsadi — 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 editorials produces 268 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, also, arts, lads, laid, and last. For points, the strongest plays are adit, ados, aide, aids, arid, lade, lads, laid, lard, lead, lido, lids, lied, load, lode, loid, lord, odas, odea, odes, olde, olds, orad, rads, raid, read, redo, reds, ride, rids, road, rode, rods, roid, sade, sadi, said, sard, side, sild, sled, slid, soda, sold, sord, tads, teds, tide, tied, toad, tods, toed, told, trad, trod, dais, dale, dals, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, deil, deli, dels, delt, desi, dial, diel, dies, diet, diol, dire, dirl, dirt, dita, dite, dits, doat, doer, does, doit, dole, dols, dolt, dore, dors, dosa, dose, dost, dote, dots, drat, edit, elds, idea, ides, idle, idol, ired, and irid — 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 editorials turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, dal, das, del, die, dis, dit, doe, dol, dor, dos, dot, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, oda, ode, ods, old, rad, red, rid, rod, sad, sod, tad, ted, and tod — 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 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editorials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in editorials plus one additional letter.
editorials 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 three senses for editorials. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
editorials is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing editorials unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are editorials and idolatries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from editorials 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 editorials produce 961 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 76 seven-letter words, 173 six-letter words, 271 five-letter words, 268 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.