98 words come out when you unscramble AMADOUS, starting with AMADOUS itself: 10 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are AMADOU and DOUMAS, 9 points each. It has 7 letters, 4 vowels and 3 consonants. All 7 tiles of AMADOUS in one turn: 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50), 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from AMADOUS split into 1 with 7 letters, 2 with 6, 8 with 5, 31 with 4, 40 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Trade one tile of AMADOUS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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What AMADOUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept AMADOUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMADOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 98) | 78 | 98 | 66 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
20 of the 98 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ADSUM, OUMAS, MAAS, MASU, MOUS, OUMA, SAMA, SOUM, MAA, MOU, SADO, SAM and 8 more. 12 of the 98 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DUM, MASA, MUSO, OMAS, DOSA, ODAS, OMA, SOM, UMS, DAS, ODA and DA.
This word takes every letter of AMADOUS plus a single extra one.