Hidden inside mandola sit mandola and monadal, seven-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.
mandola and monadal tie for the highest Scrabble score from mandola at 10 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mandola: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mandola itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mandola and monadal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mandola. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adman, daman, dolma and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mandola produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, land, load, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are damn and mold — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mandola turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, lad and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mandola. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in mandola plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mandola and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
mandola 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 3-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 mandola. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
mandola is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mandola unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mandola and monadal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mandola 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 mandola produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.