Hidden inside rigadoons sit grandioso and rigadoons, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 370 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grandioso and rigadoons tie for the highest Scrabble score from rigadoons at 11 points. The top 10 of 370 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rigadoons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rigadoons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grandioso and rigadoons, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rigadoons. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dragoons, gadroons, and rigadoon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rigadoons produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring and dragons. For points, the strongest plays are adoring, darings, dragons, dragoon, drongos, gadroon, ganoids, goondas, and gradins — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rigadoons turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, donors, dragon, drains, grands, grinds, and groins. For points, the strongest plays are daring, dingos, doings, dongas, dosing, dragon, drongo, ganoid, godson, gonads, goonda, gradin, grands, and grinds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rigadoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, donor, doors, drags, drain, gains, and goods. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, dingo, dings, doing, donga, dongs, drags, gadis, girds, goads, gonad, goods, grads, grand, grids, and grind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rigadoons produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, digs, dogs, door, drag, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, dogs, dong, drag, gadi, gads, gids, gird, goad, gods, good, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rigadoons turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, aid, air, and, dig, and dog. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rigadoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, do, gi, go, id, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in rigadoons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rigadoons 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.
rigadoons 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.
rigadoons is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rigadoons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grandioso and rigadoons, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rigadoons 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 rigadoons produce 370 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.