Hidden inside ultrasound sit ultrasound and undulators, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 474 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ultrasound and undulators tie for the highest Scrabble score from ultrasound at 11 points. The top 10 of 474 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in ultrasound: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ultrasound itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ultrasound and undulators, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ultrasound produces exactly one nine-letter word: undulator. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultrasound. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outlands, rotundas, and trolands, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ultrasound produces 24 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 arduous, astound, daltons and 13 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ultrasound turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, around, donuts, and rounds. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including adults, around and donuts.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultrasound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, aunts and autos. For points, 53 words tie at 6 points, including adult, donut and lands.
Rearranging the letters in ultrasound produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants and anus. For points, 67 words tie at 5 points, including lads, land and load.
Unscrambling ultrasound turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 28 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and dot.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ultrasound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ultrasound plus one additional letter.
ultrasound 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for ultrasound. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ultrasound is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ultrasound unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ultrasound and undulators, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ultrasound 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 ultrasound produce 474 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.