Hidden inside lodes sit doles, lodes, and soled, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doles, lodes, and soled tie for the highest Scrabble score from lodes at 6 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in lodes: two come from rearranging its letters, and lodes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doles, lodes, and soled, 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 lodes produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, lose, and sold. For points, the strongest plays are dels, does, dole, dols, dose, elds, lode, odes, olde, olds, sled, and sold — 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 lodes turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led and old. For points, the strongest plays are del, doe, dol, dos, eds, eld, led, ode, ods, old, and sod — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in lodes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
lodes 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 lodes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lodes is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lodes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doles, lodes, and soled, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lodes 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 lodes produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.