Hidden inside untried sit intrude, turdine, untired and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intrude, turdine, untired and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from untried at 8 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in untried: three come from rearranging its letters, and untried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intrude, turdine, untired, and untried, 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 untried turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ruined, turned, and united. For points, the strongest plays are dunite, inured, rident, ruined, tinder, trined, turned, united, and untied — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, nuder, tired, tried, tuned, under, and urine. For points, the strongest plays are diner, ident, indue, nuder, nudie, teind, tendu, tined, tired, trend, tried, trued, tuned, and under — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in untried produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine, dirt, edit, nerd, nude, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dire, dirt, dite, duet, duit, dune, dunt, dure, durn, edit, ired, nerd, nide, nude, nurd, rend, ride, rind, rude, rued, tend, tide, tied, turd, and unde — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling untried turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, end, net, nut, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dit, due, dui, dun, end, red, rid, ted, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 untried and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
untried 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 untried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
untried is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intrude, turdine, untired, and untried, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from untried 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 untried produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.