Hidden inside rotted sit dotter and rotted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dotter and rotted tie for the highest Scrabble score from rotted at 7 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rotted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rotted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dotter and rotted, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rotted. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doter, toted, and trode, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rotted produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rode and tore. For points, the strongest plays are doer, dore, dote, redo, rode, toed, and trod — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rotted turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, red, rod, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are doe, dor, dot, ode, red, rod, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rotted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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.
Swap a single tile in rotted and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
rotted 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in rotted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rotted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
rotted is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rotted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dotter and rotted, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rotted 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 rotted produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.