Hidden inside modals sit dolmas and modals, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dolmas and modals tie for the highest Scrabble score from modals at 9 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in modals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modals 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 dolmas and modals, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loads. For points, the strongest plays are dolma, domal, modal, and molds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modals produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, lads, load, slam, soda, and sold. For points, the strongest plays are dams, doms, mads, mods, and mold — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling modals turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, lad, mad, old, and sad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, do, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 modals 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.
modals is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record four senses for modals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
modals is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dolmas and modals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modals 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 modals produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.