Hidden inside lander sit darnel, lander, larned and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darnel, lander, larned and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lander at 7 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in lander: three come from rearranging its letters, and lander itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darnel, lander, larned, and reland, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learn. For points, the strongest plays are alder, denar, eland, laden, lader, naled, and redan — 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 lander produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, earn, land, lane, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, lade, land, lard, lead, lend, nard, nerd, rand, read, and rend — 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 lander turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, lad, and led. For points, the strongest plays are and, dal, dan, del, den, eld, end, lad, led, rad, and red — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lander. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 lander 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.
lander 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 2-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 lander. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
lander is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lander unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darnel, lander, larned, and reland, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lander 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 lander produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.