Hidden inside woodworm sit woodworm and wormwood, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
woodworm and wormwood tie for the highest Scrabble score from woodworm at 17 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in woodworm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and woodworm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are woodworm and wormwood, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in woodworm produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doom, door, dorm, mood, odor, room, and wood. For points, the strongest play is worm — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling woodworm turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, rod, row, woo, and wow. For points, the strongest play is wow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodworm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in woodworm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in woodworm 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.
woodworm 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 one sense for woodworm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
woodworm is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing woodworm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are woodworm and wormwood, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from woodworm 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 woodworm produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.