undertake needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 280 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undertake is the highest-scoring word from undertake, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 280 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in undertake — and it is undertake itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertake. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denature, underate, and undereat, 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 undertake produces 13 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 kneader, nakeder, tranked, trunked, and unraked, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling undertake turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned, nature, neater, rented, and turned. For points, the strongest plays are danker, darken, dekare, dunker, kerned, narked, ranked, and tanked — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drank, drunk, eaten, enter, naked, nuder, and taken. For points, the strongest plays are drake, drank, drunk, knead, kneed, naked, nuked, and raked — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in undertake produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, dare, dark, date, dear, deer, and dunk. For points, the strongest plays are dank, dark, deke, drek, duke, dunk, and eked — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling undertake turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, are, art, ate, due, and ear. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in undertake plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in undertake 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.
undertake 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 five senses for undertake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
undertake is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undertake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undertake, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undertake 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 undertake produce 280 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.