Hidden inside tolan sit notal, talon, tolan and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notal, talon, tolan and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tolan at 5 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in tolan: three come from rearranging its letters, and tolan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are notal, talon, tolan, and tonal, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tolan produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loan. For points, the strongest plays are alto, loan, lota, nota, and tola — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tolan turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, lot, not, tan, and ton. For points, the strongest plays are alt, ant, lat, lot, not, oat, tan, tao, and ton — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tolan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are al, an, at, la, lo, na, no, on, ta, and to — each worth 2 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 tolan and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tolan 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.
tolan is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tolan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notal, talon, tolan, and tonal, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tolan 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 tolan produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.