postludes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 397 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postludes is the highest-scoring word from postludes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 397 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in postludes — and it is postludes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postludes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are postlude and uptossed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postludes produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loudest and topless. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including despots, duplets and outsped.
Unscrambling postludes turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louses, oldest and posted. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including posted, depots and despot.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postludes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dusts, loses and louse. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including posed, depot and dopes.
Rearranging the letters in postludes produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets and lose. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including oped, peds and pled.
Unscrambling postludes turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and led. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dep, dup and ped.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postludes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, so and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in postludes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
postludes 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 3-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 postludes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
postludes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postludes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postludes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postludes 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 postludes produce 397 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.