Hidden inside worried sit rowdier, wordier, and worried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DROWIRE, IDERROW or WIERDOR and you get the same 7 letters as WORRIED: so the words from WORRIED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
rowdier, wordier, and worried tie for the highest Scrabble score from worried at 11 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in worried: two come from rearranging its letters, and worried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with worried. For points, the strongest plays are rowdier, wordier, and worried — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, order, weird, and wider. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including weird, wider and dower.
Rearranging the letters in worried produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drew, owed and ride. For points, the strongest plays are drew, owed, wide, and word — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling worried turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, owe and red. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in worried plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in worried and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
worried 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in worried carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for worried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
worried is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rowdier, wordier, and worried, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worried 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 worried produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.