Hidden inside idolaters sit estradiol, idolaters, and steroidal, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 898 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estradiol, idolaters, and steroidal tie for the highest Scrabble score from idolaters at 10 points. The top 10 of 898 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in idolaters: two come from rearranging its letters, and idolaters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estradiol, idolaters, and steroidal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idolaters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolated. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including isolated, asteroid and darioles.
Rearranging the letters in idolaters produces 54 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details, editors and isolate. For points, 40 words tie at 8 points, including details, editors and soldier.
Unscrambling idolaters turns up 157 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, alerts and alters. For points, 94 words tie at 7 points, including adores, detail and driest.
There are 262 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idolaters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired and aisle. For points, 128 words tie at 6 points, including adore, aired and aside.
Rearranging the letters in idolaters produces 264 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and also. For points, 102 words tie at 5 points, including aids, lads and laid.
Unscrambling idolaters turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and die.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idolaters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in idolaters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idolaters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
idolaters 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for idolaters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
idolaters is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idolaters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estradiol, idolaters, and steroidal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from idolaters 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 idolaters produce 898 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 54 seven-letter words, 157 six-letter words, 262 five-letter words, 264 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.