Hidden inside headstone sit headnotes and headstone, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 405 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
headnotes and headstone tie for the highest Scrabble score from headstone at 13 points. The top 10 of 405 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in headstone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and headstone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are headnotes and headstone, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headstone. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hastened and headnote, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in headstone produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates. For points, the strongest plays are dasheen, handset, and headset — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling headstone turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths, donate, heated, honest, hosted, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are deaths, endash, hanted, hasted, heated, hented, hondas, hosted, and noshed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, death, eased, eaten, hands, hated, and hates. For points, the strongest plays are ashed, deash, death, doeth, dosha, hades, hadst, hands, hated, heads, heeds, honda, honed, hosed, odahs, sadhe, shade, shend, and shoed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in headstone produces 141 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, date, does, done, dots, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahs, dash, dohs, dosh, doth, edhs, hade, haed, hand, head, heed, hods, hoed, odah, ohed, shad, shed, and shod — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling headstone turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ash, ate, dot, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dah, doh, edh, had, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, as, at, do, and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in headstone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in headstone and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
headstone 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 headstone carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for headstone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
headstone is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing headstone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are headnotes and headstone, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from headstone 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 headstone produce 405 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 141 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.