hereditary needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 378 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hereditary is the highest-scoring word from hereditary, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 378 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hereditary — and it is hereditary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hereditary turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is rehydrate, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hereditary. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is heredity, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hereditary produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readier and retired. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including dithery, hayride and hydrate.
Unscrambling hereditary turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, either and harder. For points, the strongest plays are deathy, hydrae, and hydria — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hereditary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, dairy and death. For points, the strongest plays are hardy, hayed, heady, and hydra — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hereditary produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, the strongest plays are hiya, hyte, they, and yeah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hereditary turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and are. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and thy.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hereditary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
hereditary 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 two senses for hereditary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hereditary is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hereditary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hereditary, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hereditary 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 hereditary produce 378 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.