Hidden inside underfed sit refunded and underfed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
refunded and underfed tie for the highest Scrabble score from underfed at 13 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in underfed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underfed 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 refunded and underfed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underfed produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is unfreed, 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 underfed turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend and refund. For points, the strongest plays are defend, defund, fended, feuded, and funded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underfed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended, nuder, and under. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feued, freed, refed, and unfed — 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 underfed produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, dude, feed, free, fund, and need. For points, the strongest plays are feed, fend, feud, and fund — 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 underfed turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, fed, fee, fun, fur, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underfed. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in underfed 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.
underfed 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 2-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 underfed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
underfed is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underfed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are refunded and underfed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underfed 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 underfed produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.