Hidden inside death sit death and hated, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HTDAE, THEDA or EADHT and you get the same 5 letters as DEATH: so the words from DEATH listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
death and hated tie for the highest Scrabble score from death at 9 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in death: one comes from rearranging its letters, and death itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: death and hated, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in death produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, hate, head, and heat. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, hade, haed, and head — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling death turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and had. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in death. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in death and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
death 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for death. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
death is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing death unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are death and hated, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from death 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 death produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.