Hidden inside oldest sit oldest and stoled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oldest and stoled tie for the highest Scrabble score from oldest at 7 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in oldest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oldest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oldest. For points, the strongest plays are oldest and stoled — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oldest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stole. For points, the strongest plays are delts, doest, doles, dolts, dotes, lodes, soled, and toled — 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 oldest produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, lets, lose, lost, lots, and slot. For points, the strongest plays are dels, delt, does, dole, dols, dolt, dose, dost, dote, dots, elds, lode, odes, olde, olds, sled, sold, teds, tods, toed, and told — 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 oldest turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, led, let, lot, old, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are del, doe, dol, dos, dot, eds, eld, led, ode, ods, old, sod, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oldest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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.
Swap a single tile in oldest 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.
oldest 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.
oldest is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oldest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oldest and stoled, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oldest 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 oldest produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.