woodlouse needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
woodlouse is the highest-scoring word from woodlouse, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in woodlouse — and it is woodlouse itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling woodlouse produces exactly one seven-letter word: dewools. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling woodlouse turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slowed. For points, the strongest plays are dewool, dowels, slowed, and wooled — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodlouse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loose, louse, woods, and would. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including woods, would and dowel.
Rearranging the letters in woodlouse produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, lose and loud. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including owed, wood and dews.
Unscrambling woodlouse turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, led and low. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, wed, and wud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodlouse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
woodlouse is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for woodlouse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
woodlouse is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing woodlouse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is woodlouse, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from woodlouse 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 woodlouse produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.