goaltender needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 708 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goaltender is the highest-scoring word from goaltender, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 708 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in goaltender — and it is goaltender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling goaltender turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delegator, detangler, and elongated, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goaltender. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are danegelt, derogate, detangle and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in goaltender produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered, elegant and eternal. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including granted, agender and agented.
Unscrambling goaltender turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, danger and dealer. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, danger and dragon.
There are 177 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goaltender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agent and agree. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including grade, grand and donga.
Rearranging the letters in goaltender produces 186 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and date. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and edge.
Unscrambling goaltender turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and and. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dog, god and dag.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goaltender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in goaltender plus one additional letter.
goaltender 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for goaltender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
goaltender is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goaltender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is goaltender, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from goaltender 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 goaltender produce 708 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 177 five-letter words, 186 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.