undershot needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 589 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undershot is the highest-scoring word from undershot, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 589 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in undershot — and it is undershot itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undershot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roundest, southern, and thunders. For points, the strongest plays are enshroud, hounders, thunders, and unhorsed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undershot produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hunters, shouted, and thunder. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including shouted, thunder and dehorns.
Unscrambling undershot turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donuts, honest and hosted. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including hosted, hunted and rushed.
There are 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undershot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, horns and horse. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including shred, doeth and herds.
Rearranging the letters in undershot produces 176 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerd, nest and nets. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including ohed, shed and shod.
Unscrambling undershot turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and duh. For points, the strongest plays are doh, duh, edh, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undershot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in undershot plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in undershot 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.
undershot 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 1-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 undershot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
undershot is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undershot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undershot, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undershot 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 undershot produce 589 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 176 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.