Hidden inside underarm sit underarm and unmarred, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underarm and unmarred tie for the highest Scrabble score from underarm at 11 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in underarm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underarm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underarm and unmarred, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in underarm 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 duramen, eardrum, manured and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling underarm turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand, manure, and murder. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including murder, damner and marred.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream and named. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including armed, dream and named.
Rearranging the letters in underarm produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including damn, drum and made.
Unscrambling underarm turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in underarm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in underarm and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
underarm 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 underarm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
underarm is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underarm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underarm and unmarred, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underarm 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 underarm produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.