guideword needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guideword is the highest-scoring word from guideword, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in guideword — and it is guideword itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guideword produces 2 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 dowdier, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guideword turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guided and weirdo. For points, the strongest plays are widder and worded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guideword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodge, dried and guide. For points, the strongest plays are dowed and wodge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guideword produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with died, drew and drug. For points, the strongest play is gowd — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guideword turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dig. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including wig, dew and dow.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guideword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and go. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in guideword plus one additional letter.
guideword is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for guideword. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
guideword is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guideword unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is guideword, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from guideword 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 guideword produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.