Hidden inside pedalos sit deposal and pedalos, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deposal and pedalos tie for the highest Scrabble score from pedalos at 10 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pedalos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pedalos 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 deposal and pedalos, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pedalos turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapsed, padles, pedalo and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedalos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals, leads and leaps. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including posed, apods and dopas.
Rearranging the letters in pedalos produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and deal. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including pads, aped and apod.
Unscrambling pedalos turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and lad. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedalos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pedalos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pedalos 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.
pedalos 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.
pedalos is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedalos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deposal and pedalos, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pedalos 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 pedalos produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.