hindrances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 679 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hindrances is the highest-scoring word from hindrances, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 679 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hindrances — and it is hindrances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hindrances produces exactly one nine-letter word: hindrance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hindrances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are echidnas, inarched, and rachides, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hindrances produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, crashed and dancers. For points, 12 words tie at 13 points, including crashed, chained and chaired.
Unscrambling hindrances turns up 139 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with canned, cashed and chains. For points, 15 words tie at 12 points, including cashed, chased and arched.
There are 187 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hindrances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aired and aside. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chads, chard, and chide — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hindrances produces 168 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and airs. For points, the strongest plays are chad and chid — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hindrances turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hindrances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
hindrances 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 three senses for hindrances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
hindrances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hindrances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hindrances, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hindrances 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 hindrances produce 679 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 12 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 139 six-letter words, 187 five-letter words, 168 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.