lodestones needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lodestones is the highest-scoring word from lodestones, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in lodestones — and it is lodestones itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lodestones produces exactly one nine-letter word: lodestone. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loosened. For points, the strongest plays are lessoned, loosened, and stenosed — 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 lodestones produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with endless, loosens, loosest, and noodles. For points, the strongest plays are denotes, densest, doolees, eldests, endless, nestled, noodles, oldness, snooled, snooted, stooled, 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 lodestones turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson, loosen, noodle, oldest, sensed, steels, and stolen. For points, the strongest plays are denote, donees, doolee, dossel, eldest, lensed, lodens, loosed, looted, nested, nodose, noodle, noosed, odeons, oldest, oodles, sensed, snoods, soloed, sondes, sooted, steeds, stoled, stoned, tensed, toledo, tondos, toodle, tooled, and tossed — 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 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lends, loose, loses, needs, nests, noses, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are deets, deles, delts, denes, dense, dents, doest, doles, dolts, donee, doses, dotes, ledes, lends, loden, lodes, looed, needs, nodes, nosed, noted, odeon, olden, seeds, sends, sleds, sneds, snood, soldo, soled, sonde, steed, stood, tends, toled, tondo, and toned — 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 lodestones produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lent, less, lets, lose, loss, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are lede, lend, lode, need, node, nods, odes, olde, olds, seed, send, sled, sned, sods, sold, dees, deet, dele, dels, delt, dene, dens, dent, does, dole, dols, dolt, done, dons, dose, doss, dost, dote, dots, elds, ends, teds, teed, tend, 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 lodestones turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, led, let, lot, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, den, doe, dol, don, dos, dot, eds, eld, end, led, nod, ode, ods, old, sod, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodestones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, so, and to. 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.
lodestones 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 lodestones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lodestones is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lodestones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lodestones, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lodestones 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 lodestones produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.