Hidden inside modal sit dolma, domal, and modal, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dolma, domal, and modal tie for the highest Scrabble score from modal at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in modal: two come from rearranging its letters, and modal 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 dolma, domal, and modal, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modal produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with load. For points, the strongest play is mold — 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 modal turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad, mad, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, and do. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — 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 modal 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.
modal 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 four senses for modal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
modal is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dolma, domal, and modal, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modal 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 modal produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.