Hidden inside sod sit dos, ods, and sod, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dos, ods, and sod tie for the highest Scrabble score from sod at 4 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in sod: two come from rearranging its letters, and sod itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dos, ods, and sod, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
38 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in sod plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sod and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
sod 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 sod carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for sod. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
sod is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dos, ods, and sod, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sod 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 sod produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.