Hidden inside ordeals sit loaders, ordeals, and reloads, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loaders, ordeals, and reloads tie for the highest Scrabble score from ordeals at 8 points. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in ordeals: two come from rearranging its letters, and ordeals 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 loaders, ordeals, and reloads, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordeals turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores. For points, the strongest plays are adores, alders, aldose, dorsal, dorsel, laders, loader, ordeal, oreads, reload, resold, sarode, soared, and solder — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordeals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, dares, deals, dears, laser, leads, and loads. For points, the strongest plays are adore, alder, dales, dares, deals, dears, doers, doles, dores, dorsa, doser, lader, lades, lards, lased, leads, loads, lodes, lords, oared, older, oread, rased, reads, redos, resod, roads, rodes, rosed, sarod, soled, and sored — 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 ordeals produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, dare, deal, dear, does, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ados, dale, dals, dare, deal, dear, dels, doer, does, dole, dols, dore, dors, dosa, dose, elds, lade, lads, lard, lead, load, lode, lord, odas, odea, odes, olde, olds, orad, rads, read, redo, reds, road, rode, rods, sade, sard, sled, soda, sold, and sord — 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 ordeals turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, era, lad, led, and old. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, dal, das, del, doe, dol, dor, dos, eds, eld, lad, led, oda, ode, ods, old, rad, red, rod, sad, and sod — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordeals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 ordeals 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.
ordeals 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for ordeals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ordeals is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordeals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loaders, ordeals, and reloads, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ordeals 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 ordeals produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.