Hidden inside rootworms sit moorworts, rootworms, tomorrows and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moorworts, rootworms, tomorrows and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rootworms at 14 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in rootworms: three come from rearranging its letters, and rootworms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tomorrows. For points, the strongest plays are moorworts, rootworms, tomorrows, and wormroots — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rootworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tomorrow. For points, the strongest plays are moorwort, rootworm, tomorrow, and wormroot — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rootworms produces exactly one seven-letter word: morrows. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rootworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with motor, rooms and roots. For points, the strongest play is worms — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rootworms produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moos, most and room. For points, the strongest plays are mows and worm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rootworms turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, row and too. For points, the strongest play is mow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rootworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, ow, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in rootworms 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.
rootworms is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
rootworms is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rootworms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moorworts, rootworms, tomorrows, and wormroots, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rootworms 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 rootworms produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.