Hidden inside gondolas sit dongolas and gondolas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dongolas and gondolas tie for the highest Scrabble score from gondolas at 10 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gondolas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gondolas 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 dongolas and gondolas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gondolas produces 5 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 dongola, gondola, and goondas, 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 gondolas turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dongas, glands, godson, gonads, and goonda, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gondolas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, goals, golds, goods, lands, loads, and loans. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, donga, dongs, glads, gland, goads, golds, gonad, and goods — 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 gondolas produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, dogs, gals, glad, goal, gods, and gold. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, dogs, dong, gads, glad, goad, gods, 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 gondolas turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, and, dog, gal, gas, and god. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gondolas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in gondolas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gondolas 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.
gondolas 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 gondolas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
gondolas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gondolas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dongolas and gondolas, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gondolas 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 gondolas produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.