Hidden inside underages sit dungarees, underages, and ungreased, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 463 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dungarees, underages, and ungreased tie for the highest Scrabble score from underages at 11 points. The top 10 of 463 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in underages: two come from rearranging its letters, and underages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dungarees, underages, and ungreased, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deranges, dungaree, grandees and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in underages produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, gardens, and genders. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including dangers, gardens and genders.
Unscrambling underages turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees and angers. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including agreed, argued and danger.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and argue. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including drags, drugs and edges.
Rearranging the letters in underages produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and anus. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and drug.
Unscrambling underages turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and and. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dug, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and us. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, ag and da.
Swap a single tile in underages 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.
underages 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 two senses for underages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
underages is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dungarees, underages, and ungreased, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underages 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 underages produce 463 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.