widowhoods needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widowhoods is the highest-scoring word from widowhoods, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in widowhoods — and it is widowhoods itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowhoods produces exactly one nine-letter word: widowhood. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widowhoods. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoods and woods. For points, the strongest plays are dhows, whids, and widow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widowhoods produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dish, hood and odds. For points, the strongest plays are dhow and whid — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling widowhoods turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, hid and his. For points, the strongest plays are how, who, and wow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widowhoods. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, hi and ho. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including hi, ho and oh.
widowhoods 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 widowhoods. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
widowhoods is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widowhoods unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widowhoods, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widowhoods 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 widowhoods produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.