Hidden inside olden sit loden and olden, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loden and olden tie for the highest Scrabble score from olden at 6 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in olden: one comes from rearranging its letters, and olden 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 loden and olden, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in olden produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done and lend. For points, the strongest plays are dole, done, lend, lode, node, and olde — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling olden turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, led, old, and one. For points, the strongest plays are del, den, doe, dol, don, eld, end, led, nod, ode, and old — each worth 4 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 olden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 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 olden 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.
olden 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 one sense for olden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
olden is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing olden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loden and olden, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from olden 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 olden produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.