Hidden inside glandule sit glandule and ungalled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glandule and ungalled tie for the highest Scrabble score from glandule at 10 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in glandule: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glandule itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glandule and ungalled, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in glandule produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are langued and ullaged, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling glandule turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angled, augend, dangle and 6 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glandule. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle, and legal. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including agued, galed and glade.
Rearranging the letters in glandule produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, deal and dull. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including aged, glad and dang.
Unscrambling glandule turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and and. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dug, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glandule. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, ag and da.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in glandule plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in glandule and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
glandule 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
glandule is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glandule unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glandule and ungalled, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glandule 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 glandule produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.