Hidden inside gelded sit gelded and ledged, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelded and ledged tie for the highest Scrabble score from gelded at 9 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in gelded: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gelded itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gelded and ledged, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gelded. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is edged, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gelded. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gelded plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gelded and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gelded 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 2-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 gelded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gelded is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gelded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelded and ledged, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gelded 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 gelded produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.