Hidden inside yodel sit odyle, yodel, and yodle, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
odyle, yodel, and yodle tie for the highest Scrabble score from yodel at 9 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in yodel: two come from rearranging its letters, and yodel 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 odyle, yodel, and yodle, 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 yodel produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are odyl, oldy, and yeld, 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 yodel turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, led, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dye, and yod — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yodel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 yodel 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.
yodel 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 yodel carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for yodel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
yodel is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yodel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are odyle, yodel, and yodle, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yodel 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 yodel produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.