widowhood needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widowhood is the highest-scoring word from widowhood, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in widowhood — and it is widowhood itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowhood produces exactly one five-letter word: widow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widowhood produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hood and wood. For points, the strongest plays are dhow and whid — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowhood turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, hid and how. For points, the strongest plays are how, who, and wow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in widowhood plus one additional letter.
widowhood 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 two senses for widowhood. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
widowhood is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widowhood unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widowhood, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widowhood 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 widowhood produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.