Hidden inside splendours sit splendours and splendrous, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 667 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
splendours and splendrous tie for the highest Scrabble score from splendours at 13 points. The top 10 of 667 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in splendours: one comes from rearranging its letters, and splendours itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are splendours and splendrous, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling splendours turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are proudness, splendors, splendour, and supersold, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in splendours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with responds. For points, the strongest plays are plunders, pounders, responds, splendor, and sundrops — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in splendours produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons, respond, and suspend. For points, the strongest plays are drupels, pernods, plunder, polders, ponders, pounder, presold, pseudos, respond, sendups, slurped, spoused, spurned, suspend, unposed, unroped, and upsends — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling splendours turns up 125 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson, losers, louder, louses, nursed, nurses, and person. For points, the strongest plays are dopers, drupel, drupes, dupers, louped, pedros, perdus, pernod, polder, ponder, pounds, poured, proned, prosed, prudes, pruned, pseudo, pseuds, pulsed, purled, pursed, rouped, sendup, sloped, souped, spends, spodes, spored, upends, upsend, and upsold — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 180 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in splendours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dress, drops, lends, lords, loser, loses, and louse. For points, the strongest plays are doper, dopes, dorps, drops, drupe, duper, dupes, duple, loped, pedro, pends, perdu, plods, poled, ponds, pored, posed, pound, prods, proud, prude, pseud, puled, roped, spend, spode, spuds, spued, updos, upend, and urped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in splendours produces 185 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, less, lord, lose, loss, loud, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are oped, peds, pend, pled, plod, pods, pond, prod, puds, sped, spud, deps, dope, dorp, drop, dupe, dups, and updo — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling splendours turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, led, nor, old, one, and our. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, pod, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in splendours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in splendours plus one additional letter.
splendours 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for splendours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
splendours is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing splendours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are splendours and splendrous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from splendours 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 splendours produce 667 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 125 six-letter words, 180 five-letter words, 185 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.