Hidden inside poatd is one standout: adopt, a five-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
POATD isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ADOPT (verb), to take into one's family by legal means, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
adopt is the highest-scoring word from poatd, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling poatd produces exactly one five-letter word: adopt. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poatd turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, pad and pot. For points, the strongest plays are dap, pad, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poatd. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in poatd 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adopt, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poatd 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 poatd produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.