Hidden inside woodworms sit woodworms and wormwoods, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
woodworms and wormwoods tie for the highest Scrabble score from woodworms at 18 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in woodworms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and woodworms 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 woodworms and wormwoods, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodworms. 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.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dooms, doors, dorms, moods, odors, rooms, and sword. For points, the strongest play is worms — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in woodworms produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doom, door, dorm, mood, moos, odor, and rods. For points, the strongest play is wows — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling woodworms turns up 22 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in woodworms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, ow, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in woodworms 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.
woodworms 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 woodworms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
woodworms is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing woodworms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are woodworms and wormwoods, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from woodworms 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 woodworms produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.