Hidden inside unshod sit hounds, hundos, and unshod, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hounds, hundos, and unshod tie for the highest Scrabble score from unshod at 10 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in unshod: two come from rearranging its letters, and unshod itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hounds, hundos, and unshod, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unshod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sound. For points, the strongest plays are hound and hundo — 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 unshod produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undo. For points, the strongest plays are dohs, dosh, hods, and shod — 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 unshod turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duh, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are doh, duh, and hod — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unshod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho, no, oh, on, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in unshod plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unshod and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
unshod 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 unshod. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
unshod is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unshod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hounds, hundos, and unshod, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unshod 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 unshod produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.