childhood needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
childhood is the highest-scoring word from childhood, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in childhood — and it is childhood itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in childhood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with child. For points, the strongest play is hooch — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in childhood produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cold, cool, hold, and hood. For points, the strongest play is chid — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling childhood turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, hid and lid. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in childhood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, hi and ho. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in childhood plus one additional letter.
childhood is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in childhood carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for childhood. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
childhood is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing childhood unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is childhood, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from childhood earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in childhood produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.