Hidden inside redolences sit decelerons, ensorceled, and redolences, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 420 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decelerons, ensorceled, and redolences tie for the highest Scrabble score from redolences at 13 points. The top 10 of 420 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in redolences: two come from rearranging its letters, and redolences itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decelerons, ensorceled, and redolences, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redolences turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deceleron and redolence, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redolences. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are censored, coleseed, creneled and 7 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redolences produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needles. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including creeled, decerns and decrees.
Unscrambling redolences turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closed and closer. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including closed, colder and scored.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redolences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, close and codes. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including codes, colds and cords.
Rearranging the letters in redolences produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cold and cone. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including code, cold and cord.
Unscrambling redolences turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end and led. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redolences. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in redolences plus one additional letter.
redolences 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 redolences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
redolences is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redolences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decelerons, ensorceled, and redolences, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redolences 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 redolences produce 420 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.