Hidden inside sandal sit alands and sandal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alands and sandal tie for the highest Scrabble score from sandal at 7 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sandal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sandal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sandal. For points, the strongest plays are alands and sandal — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sandal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lands and salad. For points, the strongest plays are aland, lands, nadas, and salad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sandal produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lads, land, and sand. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including lads, land and sand.
Unscrambling sandal turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, lad, and sad. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and lad.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sandal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad and da — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sandal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sandal 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.
sandal 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for sandal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sandal is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sandal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alands and sandal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sandal 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 sandal produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.