Hidden inside earthworm sit earthworm and heartworm, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earthworm and heartworm tie for the highest Scrabble score from earthworm at 17 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in earthworm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and earthworm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earthworm and heartworm, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earthworm produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is thrower, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthworm turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mother, rather, and warmer. For points, the strongest play is warmth — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthworm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, heart, other, rawer, threw, throw, and tower. For points, the strongest play is whamo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earthworm produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, atom, harm, hate, hear, heat, and hero. For points, the strongest plays are wham and whom — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthworm turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are haw, hew, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthworm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, at, aw, eh, ew, and ha. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in earthworm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in earthworm and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
earthworm 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 earthworm carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for earthworm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
earthworm is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earthworm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthworm and heartworm, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earthworm 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 earthworm produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.