Unscramble OLDS and you have 18 words, OLDS itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. OLDS has 3 anagrams here, DOLS, LODS and SOLD, scoring 5 like OLDS itself. 7 shorter words score 4, among them OLD, DOS and DOL. The 4 letters split into 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OLDS by length: 4 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of OLDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with OL · ending in DS · all 4-letter words
What OLDS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept OLDS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 18) | 14 | 18 | 14 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
4 of the 18 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LODS, DSO, LOD and LOS.
Each word below uses all the letters of OLDS and one more.