Hidden inside totaled sit toadlet and totaled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
toadlet and totaled tie for the highest Scrabble score from totaled at 8 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in totaled: one comes from rearranging its letters, and totaled itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are toadlet and totaled, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling totaled turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dottel, dottle, and lotted, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totaled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, latte, and total. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including dealt, atted and datto.
Rearranging the letters in totaled produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal and late. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including date, deal and lead.
Unscrambling totaled turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, dot and eat. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including dot, lad and led.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totaled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, and to. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in totaled plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in totaled and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
totaled 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for totaled. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
totaled is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing totaled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are toadlet and totaled, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from totaled 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 totaled produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.