loadstone needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loadstone is the highest-scoring word from loadstone, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in loadstone — and it is loadstone itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loadstone produces exactly one eight-letter word: odonates. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in loadstone produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates and noodles. For points, the strongest plays are daltons, dentals, donates, noodles, odonate, onloads, sandlot, slanted, snooled, snooted, solated, stooled, taloned, toledos, and toodles — 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 loadstone turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dental, donate, lasted, loaned, loosen, noodle, and oldest. For points, the strongest plays are aldose, anodes, atoned, dalton, deltas, dental, desalt, donate, elands, ladens, lasted, loaned, lodens, loosed, looted, naleds, nodose, noodle, noosed, odeons, oldest, onload, oodles, salted, sendal, slated, soland, soldan, soloed, sooted, staled, staned, stoled, stoned, toledo, tondos, toodle, and tooled — 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 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loadstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, dates, deals, dealt, lands, lanes, and leads. For points, the strongest plays are anode, anted, dales, dates, datos, deals, dealt, deans, delta, delts, dents, doats, doest, doles, dolts, donas, dotal, dotes, eland, laden, lades, lands, lased, lated, leads, lends, loads, loden, lodes, looed, naled, nodal, nodes, nosed, noted, odeon, olden, saned, sated, sedan, snood, soldo, soled, sonde, stade, stand, stead, stood, tased, tends, toads, toled, tondo, toned, and tsade — 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 loadstone produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, lads, land, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are ados, ands, lade, lads, land, lead, lend, load, lode, node, nods, odas, odea, odes, olde, olds, sade, sand, send, sled, sned, soda, sold, dale, dals, dans, date, dato, deal, dean, dels, delt, dens, dent, doat, does, dole, dols, dolt, dona, done, dons, dosa, dose, dost, dote, dots, elds, ends, tads, teds, tend, toad, tods, toed, and told — 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 loadstone turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ate, dot, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, and, dal, dan, das, del, den, doe, dol, don, dos, dot, eds, eld, end, lad, led, nod, oda, ode, ods, old, sad, sod, tad, ted, and tod — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loadstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in loadstone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loadstone and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
loadstone 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 one sense for loadstone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
loadstone is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loadstone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is loadstone, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from loadstone 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 loadstone produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 17 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.