Hidden inside hurdle sit hurdle and hurled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hurdle and hurled tie for the highest Scrabble score from hurdle at 10 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hurdle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hurdle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hurdle and hurled, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hurdle produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with held, lure, rude, and rule. For points, the strongest plays are held, herd, and hued — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hurdle turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, duh and her. For points, the strongest plays are duh and edh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hurdle plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hurdle and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hurdle 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for hurdle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hurdle is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hurdle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hurdle and hurled, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hurdle 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 hurdle produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.