Hidden inside undoings sit sounding and undoings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sounding and undoings tie for the highest Scrabble score from undoings at 10 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in undoings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and undoings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sounding. For points, the strongest plays are sounding and undoings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undoings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undoing. For points, the strongest plays are dousing, guidons, and undoing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undoings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, sound and suing. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including doing, dingo and dings.
Rearranging the letters in undoings produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dogs and gods. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including digs, dogs and gods.
Unscrambling undoings turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog and dug. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and dug.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undoings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in undoings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in undoings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
undoings 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 4-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 undoings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
undoings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undoings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sounding and undoings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from undoings 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 undoings produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.