forthwith needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forthwith is the highest-scoring word from forthwith, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in forthwith — and it is forthwith itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forthwith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forth, throw, and worth. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including forth, throw and worth.
Rearranging the letters in forthwith produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fort, riot, and with. For points, the strongest play is howf — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling forthwith turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, for and hit. For points, the strongest plays are foh, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forthwith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho and if. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including hi, ho and if.
forthwith 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for forthwith. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
forthwith is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forthwith unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is forthwith, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from forthwith 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 forthwith produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.