101 words come out when you unscramble GLADIOLA, starting with GLADIOLA itself: 10 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. 5 shorter words score 8, among them DIALOG, ADAGIO and ALGOID. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from GLADIOLA by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 6 with 6, 9 with 5, 36 with 4, 30 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Of the 36 4-letter words from GLADIOLA, 9 score 6 points, the group's best. GOLD, GOAL and LOAD are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of GLADIOLA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with GL · ending in LA · all 8-letter words
What GLADIOLA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GLADIOLA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADIOLA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 101) | 79 | 100 | 73 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: ALOGIA, AGILA, DOLIA, GAID, GLID, IDOLA, IGAD, AIDA, AIGA, ALOD, DAAL, DALI and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: LAOGAI, LOID, LILO, ODA, DA, GI and OI. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 1 of them: DAGO.
With one more tile, the letters of GLADIOLA spell the words below.