Hidden inside untended sit undented and untended, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undented and untended tie for the highest Scrabble score from untended at 10 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in untended: one comes from rearranging its letters, and untended itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are undented and untended, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in untended produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detuned and unended, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untended turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tended. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including tended, denned and dented.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended and tuned. For points, the strongest play is ended — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in untended produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, dude and need. For points, the strongest plays are deed and dude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untended turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and net. For points, the strongest play is dud — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untended. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in untended and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
untended 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for untended. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
untended is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are undented and untended, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from untended 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 untended produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.