magdalen needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magdalen is the highest-scoring word from magdalen, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in magdalen — and it is magdalen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in magdalen produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with managed. For points, the strongest plays are managed and mangled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magdalen turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agenda, damage, and manage. For points, the strongest play is damage — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magdalen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, angle, medal, and named. For points, the strongest play is gamed — 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 magdalen produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen, damn, deal, game, glad, and lame. For points, the strongest plays are agma, dame, damn, gama, game, glam, made, mage, mead, mega, meld, and mend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling magdalen turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and, end, gal, lad, led, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are dam, gam, gem, mad, mag, med, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magdalen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 magdalen and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
magdalen 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 4-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 magdalen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
magdalen is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magdalen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is magdalen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from magdalen 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 magdalen produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.