Hidden inside lodsey sit odyles, yodels, and yodles, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOLEDY, YESOLD or LODESY and you get the same 6 letters as LODSEY: so the words from LODSEY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
LODSEY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ODYLES, YODELS and YODLES.
odyles, yodels, and yodles tie for the highest Scrabble score from lodsey at 10 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lodsey turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are odyles, yodels, and yodles, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodsey. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lysed, odyle, odyls and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lodsey produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dyes, lose, and sold. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dyes, deys and odyl.
Unscrambling lodsey turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, led and old. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dye, and yod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodsey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lodsey plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodsey and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are odyles, yodels, and yodles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lodsey 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 lodsey produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.