Hidden inside ghettoed sit dogteeth and ghettoed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dogteeth and ghettoed tie for the highest Scrabble score from ghettoed at 13 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ghettoed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ghettoed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dogteeth and ghettoed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghettoed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teeth. For points, the strongest play is hedge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ghettoed produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edge and thee. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including doth, ghee and goth.
Unscrambling ghettoed turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, dot and ego. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, hod, and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghettoed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and go. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ghettoed and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ghettoed 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 ghettoed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ghettoed is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghettoed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dogteeth and ghettoed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ghettoed 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 ghettoed produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.