Hidden inside wormiest sit miswrote and wormiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
miswrote and wormiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from wormiest at 13 points. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in wormiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wormiest 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 miswrote and wormiest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wormiest produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister. For points, the strongest plays are erotism, moister, mortise, and trisome — each 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 wormiest turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with towers and writes. For points, the strongest play is mowers — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wormiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, moist, riots, store, storm, swore, and terms. For points, the strongest plays are meows, mower, and worms — each 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 wormiest produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, more, most, owes, rest, riot, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are meow, mews, mows, smew, swim, and worm — each 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 wormiest turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, owe, row, set, sew, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are mew and mow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wormiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, it, me, or, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in wormiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wormiest 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.
wormiest 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.
wormiest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wormiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are miswrote and wormiest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wormiest 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 wormiest produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.