Hidden inside sorted sit doters, sorted, stored and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doters, sorted, stored and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sorted at 7 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in sorted: three come from rearranging its letters, and sorted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorted. For points, the strongest plays are doters, sorted, stored, and strode — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with store. For points, the strongest plays are doers, doest, dores, doser, doter, dotes, drest, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, sored, 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 sorted produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, rest, rode, rods, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, odes, redo, reds, rode, rods, sord, teds, tods, 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 sorted turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, red, rod, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are doe, dor, dos, dot, eds, ode, ods, red, rod, sod, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, 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.
33 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sorted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sorted 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.
sorted 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 sorted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for sorted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
sorted is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sorted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doters, sorted, stored, and strode, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sorted 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 sorted produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.