Hidden inside leaders sit dealers, lasered, and leaders, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dealers, lasered, and leaders tie for the highest Scrabble score from leaders at 8 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in leaders: two come from rearranging its letters, and leaders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealers and leaders. For points, the strongest plays are dealers, lasered, and leaders — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling leaders turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, erased, leader, and sealed. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dealer, erased and leader.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, deals and dears. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including dares, deals and dears.
Rearranging the letters in leaders produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal and dear. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including dare, deal and dear.
Unscrambling leaders turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and ear. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including ads, lad and led.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in leaders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leaders 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.
leaders 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 leaders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
leaders is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leaders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dealers, lasered, and leaders, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leaders 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 leaders produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.