undertows 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, 532 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undertows is the highest-scoring word from undertows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 532 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in undertows — and it is undertows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roundest. For points, the strongest plays are undersow and undertow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in undertows produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wonders. For points, the strongest plays are downers, outdrew, rewound, strowed, swouned, unsowed, wonders, and worsted — each 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 undertows turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donuts, drowns, nudest, nursed, owners, rounds, and routes. For points, the strongest plays are dowers, downer, dowser, drowns, drowse, endows, snowed, stowed, sundew, swound, trowed, undrew, wonder, wonted, and wounds — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, drown, nerds, notes, nuder, nurse, and outer. For points, the strongest plays are dower, downs, dowse, drown, endow, owned, rowed, sowed, sword, towed, unwed, wends, words, and wound — 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 undertows produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerd, nest, nets, news, nose, note, and nude. For points, the strongest plays are owed, dews, down, dows, drew, weds, wend, and word — 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 undertows turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due, end, net, new, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, wed, and wud — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undertows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, on, or, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — 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 undertows 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.
undertows 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 two senses for undertows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
undertows is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undertows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undertows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undertows 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 undertows produce 532 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.