Hidden inside unearthing sit antihunger, unearthing, and urethaning, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 468 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antihunger, unearthing, and urethaning tie for the highest Scrabble score from unearthing at 14 points. The top 10 of 468 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in unearthing: two come from rearranging its letters, and unearthing 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 antihunger, unearthing, and urethaning, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearthing produces exactly one nine-letter word: naughtier. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunting. For points, the strongest plays are earthing, haunting, hearting, ingather, and naething — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unearthing produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, hearing, heating, hunting, hurting, renting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are gahnite, hanting, hearing, heating, henting, hunting, hurting, and unhinge — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearthing turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, gather, guinea, guitar, hating, hunter, and intern. For points, the strongest plays are aright, gather, haeing, hanger, haring, hating, hegari, hegira, hinger, hunger, naught, nigher, rehang, rehung, and unhang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, argue, earth, eight, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, aught, eight, garth, gerah, ghaut, girth, grith, hinge, huger, neigh, night, right, teugh, thang, thegn, and thing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unearthing produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, aunt, earn, gain, gate, hair, and hang. For points, the strongest plays are argh, augh, ghat, hang, huge, hung, nigh, and thug — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unearthing turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, hag, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unearthing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in unearthing plus one additional letter.
unearthing 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
unearthing is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unearthing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antihunger, unearthing, and urethaning, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unearthing 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 unearthing produce 468 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.