Hidden inside woodtones sit woodnotes and woodtones, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
woodnotes and woodtones tie for the highest Scrabble score from woodtones at 13 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in woodtones: one comes from rearranging its letters, and woodtones itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are woodnotes and woodtones, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodtones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are woodnote and woodtone, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in woodtones produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is swooned, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling woodtones turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wooden. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including wooden, endows and snowed.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodtones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, owned and stone. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including owned, towed and woods.
Rearranging the letters in woodtones produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and dots. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including down, owed and wood.
Unscrambling woodtones turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end and net. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodtones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and no. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in woodtones and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
woodtones 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.
woodtones is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing woodtones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are woodnotes and woodtones, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from woodtones 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 woodtones produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.