tombstone needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tombstone is the highest-scoring word from tombstone, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tombstone — and it is tombstone itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tombstone produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bottoms. For points, the strongest plays are bottoms and entombs — each 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 tombstone turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bottom. For points, the strongest plays are bottom and entomb — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tombstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bones, boots, moons, moose, notes, stone, and tents. For points, the strongest plays are besom, booms, bosom, and tombs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tombstone produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, best, bets, bone, boom, boos, and boot. For points, the strongest plays are boom, mobs, and tomb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tombstone turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, boo, men, met, mob, moo, and net. For points, the strongest play is mob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tombstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tombstone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tombstone 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.
tombstone 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tombstone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tombstone is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tombstone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tombstone, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tombstone 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 tombstone produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.