Hidden inside undo sit udon and undo, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
udon and undo tie for the highest Scrabble score from undo at 5 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in undo: one comes from rearranging its letters, and undo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undo. For points, the strongest plays are udon and undo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling undo turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are don, dun, duo, nod, oud, and udo, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do and od — each worth 3 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 undo and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
undo 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 undo. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
undo is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are udon and undo, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from undo 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 undo produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.