Hidden inside yodles sit odyles, yodels, and yodles, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
odyles, yodels, and yodles tie for the highest Scrabble score from yodles at 10 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in yodles: two come from rearranging its letters, and yodles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are odyles, yodels, and yodles, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yodles. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lysed, odyle, odyls, sloyd, 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 yodles produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dyes, lose, and sold. For points, the strongest plays are deys, dyes, odyl, oldy, yeld, and yods — 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 yodles turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, led, old, soy, and yes. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yodles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, oy, so, 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 yodles and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
yodles 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 yodles carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
yodles is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yodles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are odyles, yodels, and yodles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yodles 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 yodles produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.