Hidden inside hoedowns sit hoedowns and woodhens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoedowns and woodhens tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoedowns at 15 points. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hoedowns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hoedowns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hoedowns and woodhens, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hoedowns produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hoedown, woodhen, and wooshed, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hoedowns turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with showed and wooden. For points, the strongest play is showed — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoods, owned, shone, shown, whose, and woods. For points, the strongest play is dhows — 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 hoedowns produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, down, ends, hens, hood, and hose. For points, the strongest play is dhow — 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 hoedowns turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, hen, how, new, now, oho, and one. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, ew, he, ho, no, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, ho, oh, ow, sh, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in hoedowns plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hoedowns and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hoedowns 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 hoedowns carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hoedowns is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoedowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hoedowns and woodhens, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoedowns 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 hoedowns produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.