Unscramble POLOIDAL to get 108 words. POLOIDAL itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 4 reach 9 points, PALLID, DOLLOP and DALLOP among them. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
P34O1L12O1I1D2A1L12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from POLOIDAL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 6, 12 with 5, 37 with 4, 33 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 37 4-letter words from POLOIDAL, 6 score 7 points, the group's best. PAID, POOL and LOAD are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POLOIDAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PO · ending in AL · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with DOLLOP and PALLID (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
POLOIDAL is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLOIDAL itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 81 | 108 | 69 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POLOIDAL, DALLOP, PODIAL, PALOLO, PODAL, APIOL, OOIDAL, PAOLI, PAOLO, PILAO, DOLIA, DOP and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LIPA, LIPO, PALI, APO, LOID, OPA, POO, LILO, ODA, PO, DA and OI, 12 in all.