Hidden inside adulatory sit adulatory and laudatory, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adulatory and laudatory tie for the highest Scrabble score from adulatory at 13 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adulatory: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adulatory itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adulatory and laudatory, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulatory. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adulator and laudator, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling adulatory turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are datary, dourly, and drylot, 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, altar, today, and truly. For points, the strongest plays are adyta, dorty, lardy, lyard, tardy, toady, today, and yauld — 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 adulatory produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, data, duty, lady, load, lord, and loud. For points, the strongest plays are dory, doty, dray, duly, duty, lady, odyl, oldy, tody, yald, yard, and yaud — 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 adulatory turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, day, dot, dry, lad, lay, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are day, dry, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adulatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, ay, do, or, oy, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, 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 adulatory and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
adulatory 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 adulatory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
adulatory is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adulatory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adulatory and laudatory, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adulatory 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 adulatory produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.