underlines needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 444 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underlines is the highest-scoring word from underlines, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 444 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in underlines — and it is underlines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling underlines turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underlies and underline, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leisured, redlines, underlie, and unrinsed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in underlines produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinners. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including dinners, deniers and duelers.
Unscrambling underlines turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire and diners. For points, 59 words tie at 7 points, including denies, desire and diners.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, delis and diner. For points, 65 words tie at 6 points, including deers, delis and diner.
Rearranging the letters in underlines produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lids and lied. For points, 63 words tie at 5 points, including lend, lids and lied.
Unscrambling underlines turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and end. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including die, due and end.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
underlines 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 three senses for underlines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
underlines is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underlines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is underlines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from underlines 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 underlines produce 444 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.