Hidden inside untoward sit outdrawn and untoward, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outdrawn and untoward tie for the highest Scrabble score from untoward at 12 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in untoward: one comes from rearranging its letters, and untoward 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 outdrawn and untoward, 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 untoward produces 3 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 outdraw and outward, 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 untoward turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with around and toward. For points, the strongest plays are onward, toward, and undraw — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untoward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, drawn, drown, round, and wound. For points, the strongest plays are adown, drawn, drown, and wound — 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 untoward produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, dawn, down, draw, road, and toad. For points, the strongest plays are dawn, dawt, down, draw, wand, ward, woad, and word — 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 untoward turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, art, dot, nor, not, and now. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, wad, and wud — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untoward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, aw, do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in untoward 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.
untoward 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 2-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 untoward. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
untoward is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untoward unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outdrawn and untoward, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from untoward 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 untoward produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.