Hidden inside grindstone sit grindstone and stringendo, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 755 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grindstone and stringendo tie for the highest Scrabble score from grindstone at 12 points. The top 10 of 755 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in grindstone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grindstone 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 grindstone and stringendo, 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 grindstone turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is endorsing, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grindstone. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denoting, digestor, grodiest, stodgier, stringed, and trending, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grindstone produces 75 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinners, editors, endings, ignored, ignores, intends, and interns. For points, the strongest plays are denting, dingers, dingoes, droning, endings, engirds, eroding, goitred, grinned, groined, ignored, ingoted, nidgets, redoing, rending, sending, and tending — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grindstone turns up 166 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, diners, dinner, driest, editor, ending, and grinds. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, digest, dinger, dinges, dingos, dirges, dogies, doings, dosing, doting, ending, engird, geoids, ginned, girned, girted, godets, grides, grinds, nidget, reding, ridges, ringed, signed, singed, stodge, tinged, and tonged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grindstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, diner, dines, doing, dries, edits, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dingo, dings, dirge, doges, dogie, doing, dongs, dregs, geoid, girds, godet, gored, gride, grids, grind, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grindstone produces 181 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, digs, dine, dirt, does, and dogs. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, doge, dogs, dong, dreg, geds, gids, gied, gird, gods, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grindstone turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dog, dot, ego, end, and get. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dog, ged, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grindstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 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 grindstone plus one additional letter.
grindstone 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 3-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 grindstone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grindstone is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grindstone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grindstone and stringendo, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grindstone 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 grindstone produce 755 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 75 seven-letter words, 166 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 181 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.