Hidden inside untidy sit nudity and untidy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nudity and untidy tie for the highest Scrabble score from untidy at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in untidy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and untidy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nudity. For points, the strongest plays are nudity and untidy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untidy produces exactly one five-letter word: unity. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in untidy produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duty, tiny, and unit. For points, the strongest plays are duty, tidy, and undy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in untidy 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.
untidy 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 one sense for untidy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
untidy is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untidy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nudity and untidy, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from untidy 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 untidy produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.