lauders needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lauders is the highest-scoring word from lauders, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lauders — and it is lauders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lauders turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alders, aulder, laders, and lauder, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lauders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, deals and dears. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including dares, deals and dears.
Rearranging the letters in lauders produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal and dear. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including dare, deal and dear.
Unscrambling lauders turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and due. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including ads, due and lad.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lauders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lauders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lauders 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.
lauders 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 lauders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lauders is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lauders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lauders, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lauders 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 lauders produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.