Hidden inside unloaded sit duodenal and unloaded, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duodenal and unloaded tie for the highest Scrabble score from unloaded at 10 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in unloaded: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unloaded 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 duodenal and unloaded, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unloaded produces 2 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 duodena and unladed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unloaded turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with landed, loaded, and loaned. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including landed, loaded and dandle.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unloaded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone. For points, the strongest plays are addle, dedal, doled, and laded — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unloaded produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dead, deal and done. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dead, dude and dado.
Unscrambling unloaded turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and dad. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, dud, and odd — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unloaded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and do. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in unloaded plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unloaded 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.
unloaded 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 3-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 unloaded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
unloaded is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unloaded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duodenal and unloaded, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unloaded 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 unloaded produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.