newshound needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
newshound is the highest-scoring word from newshound, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in newshound — and it is newshound itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in newshound produces 6 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 enwound, shunned, sundown and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling newshound turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with showed, undoes, undone, and wounds. For points, the strongest play is showed — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newshound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with house, owned and shone. For points, the strongest play is dhows — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in newshound produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and down. For points, the strongest play is dhow — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling newshound turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, duh and end. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in newshound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and ew. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in newshound plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in newshound 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.
newshound 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.
newshound is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing newshound unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is newshound, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from newshound 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 newshound produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.