Unscramble DOTARDLY to get 144 words. DOTARDLY itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 6 of them, ODDLY, TODDY and DRYAD included. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2O1T1A1R1D2L12Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DOTARDLY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 22 with 5, 54 with 4, 49 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
ADDY and DYAD are the top 4-letter words from DOTARDLY, 9 points each. ROAD, TOLD and LORD will look familiar.
Of the 49 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DOTARDLY, 5 score 7 points, the group's best. DAY, ADD and ART are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DOTARDLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DO · ending in LY · all 8-letter words
What DOTARDLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DOTARDLY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOTARDLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 144) | 117 | 144 | 110 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: YDRAD, ADDY, LORDY, ADRY, OTARY, YARTO, YOLD, DORAD, DOY, LYRA, OARY, RYAL and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: LADDY, OATY, TOLAR, ODA, ARO, DA and LOR.