Hidden inside gondola sit dongola and gondola, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dongola and gondola tie for the highest Scrabble score from gondola at 9 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gondola: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gondola itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dongola and gondola, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gondola turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is goonda, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gondola. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along. For points, the strongest plays are donga, gland, and gonad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gondola produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glad, goal, gold, good, land, load, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are dang, dong, glad, goad, gold, and good — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gondola turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, and, dog, gal, god, goo, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dog, gad, and god — each worth 5 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 gondola. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, do, go, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, do, go, 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 gondola and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gondola 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 three senses for gondola. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gondola is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gondola unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dongola and gondola, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gondola 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 gondola produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.