Hidden inside earthworms sit earthworms and heartworms, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 712 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earthworms and heartworms tie for the highest Scrabble score from earthworms at 18 points. The top 10 of 712 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in earthworms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and earthworms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earthworms and heartworms, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthworms turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthworms. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: somewhat, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earthworms produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hamster, maestro, mothers, shorter, smarter, and warmest. For points, the strongest play is warmths — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthworms turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, hearts, master, mother, others, rarest, and rather. 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 192 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, earth, harms, hates, hears, heart, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are shawm, whamo, and whams — each 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 earthworms produces 222 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms, arts, atom, mate, math, and meat. 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 earthworms turns up 119 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ash, ate, ear, and eat. 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 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, aw, eh, and ew. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in earthworms plus one additional letter.
earthworms 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 earthworms carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for earthworms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
earthworms is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earthworms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthworms and heartworms, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earthworms 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 earthworms produce 712 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 192 five-letter words, 222 four-letter words, 119 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.