Hidden inside unearth sit haunter, unearth, and urethan, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
haunter, unearth, and urethan tie for the highest Scrabble score from unearth at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in unearth: two come from rearranging its letters, and unearth itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haunter, unearth, and urethan, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearth turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hunter and nature. For points, the strongest plays are anther, hauter, hunter, and thenar — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, haunt, and heart. For points, the strongest plays are earth, hater, haunt, haute, heart, neath, rathe, thane, and unhat — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unearth produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, earn, hate, hear, heat, hunt, and hurt. For points, the strongest plays are eath, haen, haet, hant, hare, hart, hate, haut, hear, heat, hent, hern, hunt, hurt, rath, rhea, ruth, tahr, thae, than, then, and thru — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearth turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hae, hat, hen, her, het, hue, hun, hut, nah, nth, rah, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ha, he, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and uh — 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 unearth and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
unearth 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 1-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 unearth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
unearth is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unearth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are haunter, unearth, and urethan, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unearth 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 unearth produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.