undertakes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 761 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undertakes is the highest-scoring word from undertakes, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 761 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in undertakes — and it is undertakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undertakes turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is undertake, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drunkest. For points, the strongest plays are drunkest, kneaders, nakedest, and streaked — 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 undertakes produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darkest, dearest, eastern, natures, nearest, sneaked, and sneaker. For points, the strongest plays are dankest, darkens, darkest, dekares, dunkers, kneader, nakeder, snarked, sneaked, straked, tranked, trunked, unasked, 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 undertakes turns up 138 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, earned, easter, enters, erased, nature, and neater. For points, the strongest plays are danker, darken, dekare, drakes, drunks, dunker, kerned, kneads, narked, ranked, skated, snaked, staked, tanked, tasked, and tusked — 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 222 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asked, aunts, dares, dates, dears, deers, and drank. For points, the strongest plays are asked, darks, dekes, drake, drank, dreks, drunk, dukes, dunks, knead, kneed, naked, nuked, raked, skeed, and tsked — 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 undertakes produces 205 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, dare, dark, and date. For points, the strongest plays are daks, dank, dark, deke, desk, drek, duke, dunk, dusk, eked, and sked — 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 undertakes turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, art, ask, and ate. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, and us. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in undertakes plus one additional letter.
undertakes 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 undertakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
undertakes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undertakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undertakes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undertakes 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 undertakes produce 761 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 138 six-letter words, 222 five-letter words, 205 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.