Hidden inside unearthed sit underheat, unearthed, and urethaned, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underheat, unearthed, and urethaned tie for the highest Scrabble score from unearthed at 13 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in unearthed: two come from rearranging its letters, and unearthed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underheat, unearthed, and urethaned, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthed. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adherent, neatherd, unheated, and unthread, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unearthed produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunted and thunder. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including haunted, thunder and earthed.
Unscrambling unearthed turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earned, heated and hunted. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including heated, hunted and adhere.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with death, earth and eaten. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including death, hated and heard.
Rearranging the letters in unearthed produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, dare and date. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including hand, hard and head.
Unscrambling unearthed turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest plays are dah, duh, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in unearthed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unearthed 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.
unearthed 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.
unearthed is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unearthed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underheat, unearthed, and urethaned, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unearthed 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 unearthed produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.