dot and tod tie for the highest Scrabble score from tod at 4 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in tod: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tod itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot. For points, the strongest plays are dot 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and to. For points, the strongest plays are do 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 tod 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.
tod 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 tod carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tod. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
tod is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dot and tod, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tod 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 tod produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.