unworthy needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unworthy is the highest-scoring word from unworthy, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in unworthy — and it is unworthy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unworthy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horny, north and throw. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including horny, throw and worth.
Rearranging the letters in unworthy produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horn, hour and hunt. For points, the strongest play is towy — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unworthy turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, how and nor. For points, the strongest play is why — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unworthy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, no and oh. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ho, oh and ow.
Swap a single tile in unworthy 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.
unworthy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in unworthy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for unworthy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
unworthy is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unworthy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unworthy, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unworthy 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 unworthy produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.