Hidden inside launders sit launders and lurdanes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
launders and lurdanes tie for the highest Scrabble score from launders at 9 points. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in launders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and launders 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 launders and lurdanes, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in launders produces 14 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 asunder, danseur, darnels, landers, lauders, launder, lurdane, lurdans, relands, rundles, slander, snarled, unlades, and unleads, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling launders turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns, nursed, and sundae. For points, the strongest plays are alders, aulder, darnel, denars, elands, ladens, laders, lander, larned, lauder, lurdan, naleds, nurled, nursed, redans, reland, rundle, sander, sendal, snared, suldan, sundae, sunder, unlade, unlead, and unread — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in launders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, deals, dears, earns, lands, lanes, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are alder, dales, dares, darns, deals, deans, dears, denar, druse, duals, duels, dulse, dunes, dural, duras, dures, durns, eland, laden, lader, lades, lands, lards, lased, lauds, leads, lends, leuds, ludes, lured, naled, nards, nerds, nuder, nudes, nurds, rands, rased, reads, redan, rends, ruled, saned, sedan, slued, ulnad, under, and unled — 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 launders produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, dare, deal, dear, earn, ears, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are ands, auld, dale, dals, dans, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, dels, dens, dual, duel, dues, dune, duns, dura, dure, durn, elds, ends, lade, lads, land, lard, laud, lead, lend, leud, lude, luds, nard, nerd, nude, nurd, rads, rand, read, reds, rend, rude, rued, sade, sand, sard, send, sled, sned, sued, surd, unde, urds, and used — 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 launders turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, are, due, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dal, dan, das, del, den, due, dun, eds, eld, end, lad, led, lud, rad, red, sad, and urd — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in launders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and us. 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 launders 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.
launders 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 launders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
launders is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing launders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are launders and lurdanes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from launders 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 launders produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.