load needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 5 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
load is the highest-scoring word from load, worth 5 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in load — and it is load itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling load turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad and old. For points, the strongest plays are ado, dal, dol, lad, oda, and old — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in load. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and do. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, and od — 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 load and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
load 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 fourteen senses for load. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
load is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing load unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is load, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and no other word from load 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 load produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.