Hidden inside tailored sit idolater and tailored, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 342 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idolater and tailored tie for the highest Scrabble score from tailored at 9 points. The top 10 of 342 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tailored: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tailored itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idolater and tailored, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tailored produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dariole, delator, dilater, dilator, leotard, redtail, trailed, and trialed, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tailored turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail and editor. For points, the strongest plays are adroit, airted, ariled, dartle, derail, detail, dialer, dilate, dotier, editor, eidola, iodate, laired, loader, orated, ordeal, railed, redial, relaid, reload, retold, rioted, roadie, roiled, tailed, tirade, tirled, toiled, and triode — 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, alert, alter, dealt, ideal, and later. For points, the strongest plays are adore, aider, ailed, aired, alder, aroid, dater, deair, dealt, delta, derat, dotal, doter, drail, droit, ideal, idler, irade, lader, laird, lated, liard, lidar, oared, oiled, older, oldie, oread, radio, rated, redia, riled, tardo, tared, tidal, tilde, tiled, tired, toled, trade, tread, triad, tried, 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 tailored produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deal, dear, deli, dial, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dale, dare, dart, date, dato, deal, dear, deil, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, diol, dire, dirl, dirt, dita, dite, doat, doer, doit, dole, dolt, dore, dote, drat, edit, idea, idle, idol, ired, lade, laid, lard, lead, lido, lied, load, lode, loid, lord, odea, olde, orad, raid, read, redo, ride, road, rode, roid, tide, tied, toad, toed, told, trad, 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 tailored turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, art, ate, die, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are ado, aid, dal, del, die, dit, doe, dol, dor, dot, eld, lad, led, lid, oda, ode, old, rad, red, rid, rod, tad, 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, id, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, 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 tailored and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tailored 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 two senses for tailored. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tailored is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailored unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are idolater and tailored, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tailored 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 tailored produce 342 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.