landau needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
landau is the highest-scoring word from landau, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in landau — and it is landau itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in landau. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aland and ulnad, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in landau. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad and da — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in landau plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in landau 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.
landau 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 landau. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
landau is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing landau unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is landau, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from landau 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 landau produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.