Hidden inside undressing sit undersigns and undressing, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 434 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undersigns and undressing tie for the highest Scrabble score from undressing at 12 points. The top 10 of 434 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in undressing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and undressing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are undersigns and undressing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undressing turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sundering and undersign, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dressing. For points, the strongest plays are dinguses, dressing, enduring, and unsigned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undressing produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, dinners and endings. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including designs, endings and sending.
Unscrambling undressing turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, diners and dinner. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including design, during and ending.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines and dress. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including drugs, grind and guide.
Rearranging the letters in undressing produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs and dine. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including digs, drug and ding.
Unscrambling undressing turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and due. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dug, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
undressing 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.
undressing is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undressing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are undersigns and undressing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from undressing 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 undressing produce 434 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.