Hidden inside notal sit notal, talon, tolan and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notal, talon, tolan and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from notal at 5 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in notal: three come from rearranging its letters, and notal 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 notal, talon, tolan, and tonal, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in notal produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loan. For points, the strongest plays are alto, loan, lota, nota, and tola — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling notal turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, lot, not, tan, and ton. For points, the strongest plays are alt, ant, lat, lot, not, oat, tan, tao, and ton — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are al, an, at, la, lo, na, no, on, ta, and to — each worth 2 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 notal 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.
notal 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.
notal is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notal, talon, tolan, and tonal, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notal 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 notal produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.